Hallie Claflin is a Report for America corps member covering Gateway Cities for CommonWealth Beacon. She is a Wisconsin native and newcomer to Massachusetts. She has written for a number of local, nonprofit publications in Madison, Wisconsin, including Madison Commons and The Badger Project. In 2023 she spent a summer at Voice of America where she covered national and international affairs for the visual content team in Washington, DC. She previously covered rural homelessness, poverty, polit...