Rasheena Fountain
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Rasheena Fountain is a freelance writer, MFA candidate, and pre-doctoral instructor at the University of Washington. A Chicago native, Fountain focuses her writing on race relations, environmental justice, and human rights. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor’s degree in rhetoric and attended Antioch University, where she studied environmental education and graduated with a master’s degree in education.
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