College enrollment has been declining for more than a decade, and that means that many institutions are struggling to pay their bills. A growing number of them are making the difficult decision to close. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the first nine months of 2024, 28 degree-granting institutions closed, compared with 15 in […]
Marina Villeneuve
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
Marina Villeneuve is an investigative reporter with a passion for uncovering inequality. She previously covered Trump's legal battles and the Supreme Court for Salon. She also was an investigative producer at a local Boston television station, where she specialized in data reporting and led an Emmy award-winning investigation into abuse at public schools. She worked for over six years as a statehouse reporter for The Associated Press covering New York and Maine, where she chronicled the administrations of former Govs. Andrew Cuomo and Paul LePage. She has also covered Colombian peace negotiations for the Washington Post, Congress for the L.A. Times and Gannett Washington Bureau, and northern New Jersey municipalities for The (Bergen) Record. She is a board member of Investigative Reporters and Editors and the financial officer for the New England chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. In 2023, she received a national fellowship from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College, where she majored in government with a focus on constitutional law. She has also earned a certificate in data journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.