Journalist, Educator Challenges Corruption

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Sonali Samarasinghe, Ithaca City of Asylum’s writer in residence, is the focus of a front page interview in the Ithaca Journal. The story describes Sonali as an award-winning investigative journalist, editor, and lawyer from Sri Lanka who worked for more than two decades fighting for justice in her country and exposing government corruption. The wide-ranging interview covers her work in Sri Lanka, her need to flee her home country, and her life now in Ithaca as a scholar in residence at Ithaca College. The full interview, including a video of Sonali, can be found here.

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