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Clara Hendrickson
PolitiFact Michigan reporter
Clara Hendrickson is a reporter with the Detroit Free Press and PolitiFact Michigan. Previously she fact-checked Michigan issues and politics as a corps member with Report for America, an initiative of The GroundTruth Project. Prior to joining the Free Press in 2020, she worked as a research analyst in governance studies at the Brookings Institution and freelance journalist in Washington, D.C.