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Alena Maschke is a health reporter with The Current and The Acadiana Advocate in Louisiana. Previously, she covered disaster recovery in southwest Louisiana and through her work helped to bring necessary resources to a community devastated by a slew of natural disasters. She has held reporting jobs at the Naples Daily News, the Desert Sun, the Long Beach Post and the Times-Picayune. She has a bachelor’s degree from Humboldt-Universität in Berlin from and a master’s degree from the Columbia School of Journalism. Maschke’s work, including her coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic in California, has been honored by the Los Angeles Press Club and the California Newspaper Publishers Association.
