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Ashleigh Fields is an award-winning journalist specializing in coverage of lawmakers in the White House and Capitol Hill. Her reporting has earned recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists, the White House Correspondents' Association and the National Association of Black Journalists. Fields is a proud graduate of Howard University where she formerly served as the editor-in-chief of The Hilltop, a campus newspaper founded by Zora Neale Hurston.

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