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Maddie Mullikin is a University of Minnesota student studying journalism and political science. Maddie has reported for the Minnesota Daily as an arts and entertainment reporter and interned as a legislative reporter at Forum Communications Co. She also works part-time as a daycare teacher, and enjoys listening to music and watching true crime in her free time.

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