Shannon Chaffers is deepening that connection as she joins the Amsterdam News’ Blacklight investigative team as its first gun violence reporter.
Sign up for our acclaimed free newsletter Editorially Black with the top Racial Equity stories of the day to your inbox!, Report for America corps member Shannon Chaffers found a family connection to the storied newspaper.
Born and raised in the Wellsley suburb of Boston, she graduated from Princeton University in 2022 with a degree in sociology and certificates in journalism, African American studies and German. Her passion for journalism began in high school when she joined her school’s paper.
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