Ericka Conant is a digital producer for WHYY News. Born and raised in El Centro, California, she got her first taste of news at a newspaper club in high school. She carried this into college at UC Santa Cruz, where she was a fact-checker at the weekly school paper. Upon graduating in 2018, she became a digital producer and multimedia journalist in Yuma, Arizona. Ericka moved to Philadelphia in 2020 to pursue bilingual journalism and to report on the city’s extremely diverse Latino populations. Now at WHYY, she utilizes everything she’s learned.
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Philadelphia biomedical research firm granted $250K for workforce training
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Gov. Wolf announces $15M for gun violence prevention to fund community programs
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Funeral services to be held for Fairmount fire victims on Monday
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Philly lawmakers call on Penn to revoke professor’s tenure after racist comments
The University of Pennsylvania law professor has come under scrutiny before for racist remarks made about Black students.
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Deadly Fairmount blaze moved President Biden to call Philly fire union leader
Biden called the head of Philadelphia’s fire union Monday night to discuss the devastating rowhouse fire and future funding for the city’s Fire Department.
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M. Elizabeth Magill will succeed Amy Gutmann, Penn’s longest-serving president. Magill will join Penn from UVA, where she serves as a provost.
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A year after Jan. 6, Pa. Democrats say there is work to do to protect voting rights
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Philly schools to go virtual Friday as winter storm nears region
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Thousands of households set to lose protections as N.J. eviction moratorium ends Jan. 1
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