nichole dobo is a staff writer and social media editor. her work has been published in the los angeles times, the atlantic's online edition, mind/shift, whyy newsworks, slate and in mcclatchy newspapers. she has more than 10 years of experience writing about education. she has also covered government, courts, crime, business and religion. she was a staff writer at the news journal in wilmington, del., the york daily record/sunday news in york, pa., the times-tribune in scranton, pa. and the citizens' voice in wilkes-barre, pa. she was a 2015 aera-ewa data journalism fellow. she won first prize and best of show for education writing in 2011 from the maryland-delaware-d.c. press association. she earned a b.a. in journalism at the pennsylvania state university, where she was selected to be an editor and reporter at the daily collegian. she is a graduate of a small, rural high school in northern appalachia, and she walked on a dirt road to catch the school bus.
