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Jennifer Gerson, The 19th

Jennifer Gerson is a reporter on The 19th's breaking news team. She was the recipient of the 2015 Maggie Award for her reproductive and sexual health reporting work at Yahoo Health. In 2019, she was twice nominated by the American Society of Magazine Editors for her work in Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan. She was also one of the founding editors of Jezebel.com.

One of the entrances to the New Mexico Legislature is shown bathed in shadow, with light from the afternoon sun spilling out from above the Roundhouse.

What makes state legislatures uniquely prone to alleged harassment

By: Jennifer Gerson, The 19th - September 7, 2022

Miranda Viscoli was used to seeing legislation change at the midnight hour. That’s what happened one Friday in 2017 when Viscoli, the co-president of New Mexicans for the Prevention of Gun Violence, was at the New Mexico capitol advocating for a bill that would “get guns out of the hands of domestic violence offenders” by […]

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