Alyssa Brown-Ruiz is the Editorial and Events Director for Progressive Policy Institute (PPI). Before joining PPI, she worked in various roles at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, most recently as the opinion editor and a page designer. While at the Post-Gazette, she also worked on the night copy desk as a copy editor and page designer, and was a member of the staff who earned a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for the coverage of the massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue.
Alyssa is a Pittsburgh native and is an alumna of Wagner College in Staten Island, N.Y., where she studied Spanish, English, and journalism. Her involvement in the college newspaper, The Wagnerian, piqued her interest in copy editing and journalism.
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