Emily Peterson

Emily Peterson is an experienced fact-checker and editor. She's a graduate student at Queens College studying Library and Information Science as well as a public library worker. Emily served as a Graduate Intern at the Advertising Research Foundation in New York and earned Bachelor's degrees in English Literature and French.

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