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Author: Emma Cillekens

Emma Cillekens has been an AWNY volunteer since 2018. She is an award-winning journalist who hails from the Gold Coast. She was a breakfast radio host with the ABC in Outback Queensland before a scholarship stole her away to New York City to study her master's at NYU. Since she arrived in New York she's worked with The Wall Street Journal, WNYC, ProPublica, Barron's and MIT Technology Review to name a few. She spends most of her time making podcasts and consulting on everything storytelling. In her spare time Emma moonlights as a dance teacher.
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Remembering the day the Twin Towers fell, 20 years on

  • by Emma Cillekens
  • Posted on September 11, 2021October 4, 2021

Twenty years ago, when two planes flew into the World Trade Center towers, the face of New York City changed forever.

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Reflections of an Aussie Woman in NYC on Inauguration Day 2021

  • by Emma Cillekens
  • Posted on January 20, 2021October 4, 2021

Emma Cillekens shares some reflections on both the November 2020 presidential election and the January 2021 presidential inauguration.

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