Heather Chin is Billy Penn’s deputy editor. She previously was a digital producer at the Inquirer and an editor at outlets both print and digital — from national breaking news service Flipboard to hyperlocal weeklies in her native Brooklyn. She has also done a lot of freelance reporting, and is co-director of the Asian American Journalists Association’s freelance group.
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