Audience Engagement Producer

Alexis Allston is an Audience Engagement Producer who works to connect as many people as possible to the stories Star Tribune reporters work hard on. If you follow Star Tribune on Instagram, what you see is most likely coming from Alexis.

She graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill, where she helped found a student-led initiative called Our Chatham that brings reader-inspired local news stories to a rural North Carolina county. Alexis was previously an engagement fellow at Texas Tribune.


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