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Briget Ganske

SRL Youth Media Producer
PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL)

Briget is a multimedia storyteller and educator. She grew up in Iowa, exploring life with the Kodak camera her grandparents gave her. She earned her B.A. in English, creative writing from Northwestern University, studied documentary photography at The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, and received her Ed.M. in arts in education from Harvard Graduate School of Education. For the past twelve years, Briget has been a freelance photographer and video storyteller. She’s led photo and video workshops with youth in New York, South Africa, Boston, Maine, and Richmond. Since 2018, she’s been a Youth Media Producer with PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs. She lives in Richmond, VA with her husband and two young kids.

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