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Alisa Barba

Managing Editor, America Amplified

America Amplified

Professional Bio

Alisa Joyce Barba is the Managing Director of America Amplified, a CPB-funded initiative aimed at supporting community engaged journalism in public media.
In previous positions, she served as Executive Editor of Inside Energy, a public media collaboration focused on the energy industry and energy boom states of Colorado, Wyoming, and North Dakota. From 2010 through 2014, she served as Senior Editor for Fronteras: The Changing America Desk, a regional news collaboration project focused on the border, involving seven public radio stations across the southwest.
From 1999 through 2010, she served as the Western Bureau Chief for NPR.

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