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Leah Cates

As seen in: Medium, The Miscellany News, The Reader
PhD student @RutgersCommInfo studying media, youth, gender. Previously: Journalist @TheReader_Omaha & Editor-in-Chief @themiscnews. Bright Eyes fan. She/her.

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John Heaston, Author at The Reader

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By Karlha Velasquez Rivas, John Heaston Verified, Chris Bowling, Leah Cates
| The Reader
Posted inIn Memoriam by Publisher’s Note: The annals of the founding of The Reader are anchored in a youth-led effort to save Sokol Hall on 13th & Martha in 1990 from a questionable fire-safety inspection.
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This Is Your Brain on Poverty: Omaha Is One Site in Nationwide Study

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By Leah Cates
| The Reader
This story is part of (DIS)Invested — a long-term Reader investigation into Omaha’s inequities. When Tiffany Back’s oldest daughter, Catina, was in kindergarten, the single mom only saw her when she sent her to school in the morning — the rest of the time, Back said, she was working two jobs, desperate to make ends meet for Catina and her then 1-year-old sister, Miracle.
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This Is Your Brain on Poverty: Omaha Is One Site in Nationwide Study

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By Leah Cates
| The Reader
This story is part of (DIS)Invested — a long-term Reader investigation into Omaha’s inequities. When Tiffany Back’s oldest daughter, Catina, was in kindergarten, the single mom only saw her when she sent her to school in the morning — the rest of the time, Back said, she was working two jobs, desperate to make ends meet for Catina and her then 1-year-old sister, Miracle.
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