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Hana Stepnick
Staff writer
Hana Stepnick joined PolitiFact in June 2022. She is a senior at Duke University studying public policy with minors in history and economics. She’s previously worked for Polis: Center for Politics at Duke and been a research assistant in the Sanford School for Public Policy and Duke’s political science department.