
Asha Prihar is a general assignment reporter at Billy Penn. She has previously written for several daily newspapers across the Midwest, and she covered Pennsylvania state government and politics for The PLS Reporter in the fall of 2020. Asha graduated in 2021 from Yale University, where she majored in political science and served as managing editor of the Yale Daily News.
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