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Allie Miller (they/them) is a Pittsburgh-based freelance journalist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PublicSource, and Gateway Journalism Review, covering health, food, politics, education, and the LGBTQIA+ community. Allie graduated from Saint Joseph's University in 2024, where they earned a Bachelor of Arts in English, Writing & Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, and is bilingual.
Allie served as Editor-in-Chief of The Hawk News, St. Joe's independent, student-run news outlet, where they lead a staff of nearly 40 students and a weekly print edition. Additionally, Allie previously served as a foreign correspondent for The Hawk in South Africa, as News Editor, and completed a summer-long research project in 2022 on LGBTQIA+ journalism, with stories based in South Africa, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia.
During their senior year, Allie completed a College Honors Thesis titled, "Beyond the Binary: Exploring LGBTQIA+ Journalism," which served as an eight-story series in The Hawk about LGBTQIA+ people and happenings in the St. Joe's and Philadelphia communities. Allie's research was awarded a Claver Prize for outstanding undergraduate research at Saint Joseph's University. Allie also received First Place in the Student Keystone Media Awards for Excellence in Reporting in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
During summer 2023, Allie also completed an internship at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as a Health & Wellness reporter, where they covered breaking news, business, entertainment, and both daily and long-term enterprise health and news stories.
By listening with the intent to understand and through rigorous, persistent research, Allie has had the privilege of completing in-depth, investigative reporting on the injustices faced by the LGBTQIA+ community, and has also reported on the mental health disparities faced by marginalized religious groups during a criminal trial.
Allie has an undeniable passion for honest and ethical storytelling, and lives for the trust put in them to bring untold stories to life on the page.
Get in touch with Allie for assignments or questions: [email protected].
The first time you visited the Department of Motor Vehicles to get your driver's license or state identification card, it's likely you were...
By Allie Miller >> The end of this month will mark President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office, and in that time his administration has moved to eliminate the Department of Education, ended federal support for Tribal colleges, removed protections for transgender students, launched inv
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