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Empire BlueCross BlueShield To Open New Community Center In Queens
The purpose of the center is to address health inequality concerns in the Flushing community, according to the healthcare provider.
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Naeisha Rose is a Jamaican-born multimedia journalist living in Queens, New York. As a general assignment editor at Patch.com she covers news throughout New York City and Long Island.
She was the Southeast Queens associate editor at Queens Chronicle and she earned a master's degree in 2015 from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, where she specialized in Arts & Culture Reporting and Broadcast. During college she interned for LatinTrends Magazine and for award-winning documentary filmmaker Jason DaSilva.
After graduating, she freelanced for LatinTrends Magazine, Publishers Weekly, RT Book Reviews, the Queens Daily Eagle, The Haitian Times, Queens County Politics, WhereItzAt, The Hub News, Chelsea Now and TimesLedger Newspaper, where she later became a general assignment reporter and photojournalist. She also worked as a production assistant on the “No Responders Left Behind” documentary, which is currently out on Discovery+, with Director Rob Lindsay and Producer Kelly Zemnickis, featuring 9/11 activist John Feal and former Daily Show host Jon Stewart.
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The purpose of the center is to address health inequality concerns in the Flushing community, according to the healthcare provider.
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