During an environmental justice march in Detroit. Credit: Marcus Johnstone
During an environmental justice march in Detroit. Credit: Marcus Johnstone

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Agya K. Aning

Reporter, Baltimore

Agya K. Aning is a Roy W. Howard fellow at Inside Climate News focusing on environmental justice. He earned a master’s degree in investigative journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at ASU in 2020. Before switching careers to journalism he taught English as a second language in China and Taiwan, where he also studied Mandarin. His work has appeared in the Arizona Republic, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA Today, Poynter and The Trace.

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