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Sasha Allen, a summer 2025 CT Mirror intern, has joined The Connecticut Mirror as a data reporting fellow. Credit: Contributed

Sasha Allen, who served as The Connecticut Mirror’s summer 2025 data intern, has joined CT Mirror full-time as a data reporting fellow.

In her role, she will explore data-driven stories across Connecticut and assist other reporters and CT Mirror’s data team with investigations.

Allen graduated from the University of Maryland in May with a degree in journalism and a minor in creative writing. She came to CT Mirror via the Dow Jones News Fund, a competitive journalism internship program that trains college students and recent graduates and places them in newsrooms nationwide.

During her internship, Allen assisted reporters with data analysis, created data graphics and contributed to Charting Connecticut, a weekly data visualization series.

“Sasha first joined us as a summer intern in June, but it became obvious in the weeks that followed that we’d want her to join us full-time,” said Stephen Busemeyer, CT Mirror’s managing editor. “Sasha has a flair for quickly seeing the story in the data. When she was an intern, she wrote about everything from federal cuts to FEMA programs to special education needs in Connecticut schools. We’re looking forward to more.”

Allen previously worked part-time at Herald Mail, a newspaper based in western Maryland, and served as a reporter and copy editor for Capital News Service, the University of Maryland’s wire service.

Monday was her first day back at CT Mirror.

As manager of audience engagement, Gabby is responsible for CT Mirror’s digital growth. She manages our website, newsletters, search engine optimization, CT Mirror Explains product, on-site marketing, social media channels and internal data analysis. Gabby previously worked as a reporter on Patch.com’s Connecticut team and as an associate editor at The Woonsocket Call in Rhode Island. She is a Connecticut native who holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from UConn and is pursuing a master’s degree in integrated marketing communications from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.