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Valerie Plesch

@ValeriePlesch

Freelance photojournalist covering the DC region + beyond. 🇦🇷🇻🇳. Prev. in Kosovo + Afghanistan. @columbiajourn alum. @pulitzercenter grantee

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We want to remind you of the photo essay by Valerie Plesch that documents the marks left on Kosovo’s landscape by the NATO military strikes against Yugoslavia. 👇

balkaninsight.com/2019/03/24/tra…

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My latest story for The World looks at the physician shortage in the US and how a new bill introduced by Del. Kathy Tran would give an alternate licensing path to foreign doctors to continue practicing medicine theworld.org/stories/2024-0…

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Photographing this colorful story by Joe Heim was such a wonderful experience. On Saturday the community gathered at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Virginia to celebrate as part of the La Vang Lunar New Year Festival

washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/…

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According to DC Police Department, there’s an active hostage situation on 9th St in DC’s Shaw neighborhood. Several blocks along 9th St has been closed off.

According to @DCPoliceDept, there’s an active hostage situation on 9th St in DC’s Shaw neighborhood. Several blocks along 9th St has been closed off. #dc
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A protester demonstrates as Jack Lew, President Biden's nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to Israel, testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill today

A protester demonstrates as Jack Lew, President Biden's nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to Israel, testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill today #photojournalism
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Rachel Leah Siegel Emily Badger Larry Buchanan Dror Poleg 🎗 To examine what that might look like, Valerie Plesch and I visited two projects in NoVA that are already up and running.

A former SEC office that’s now a wellness club (!) and a government building turned elementary school.

Take a look with us:

washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/…

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On the front page of today’s The Washington Post:

Some empty office towers are being turned into apartments.

But faced with growing vacancies, some cities are looking outside the box — and filling empty buildings with spas, breweries and urban farms.

washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/…

On the front page of today’s @washingtonpost: Some empty office towers are being turned into apartments. But faced with growing vacancies, some cities are looking outside the box — and filling empty buildings with spas, breweries and urban farms. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/…
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We spoke to Valerie Plesch writing for The World about the critical need for a clear path to permanence for tens of thousands of America's Afghan allies who have made America home. While re-parole and TPS are effective, they only provide short-term fixes. Congress must act

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“Any topic on immigration, whether it's about the border, about Dreamers, about Afghans, about even high-skilled immigrants who can really contribute to our economy, Congress is really struggling to act on immigration,” said Julia Gelatt, a senior policy analyst MigrationPolicy Inst

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“The most exclusive theater in the world” - we had to pinch ourselves when the The White House invited us to show our little movie UNCONDITIONAL in the private theater that heads of state have watched films at since 1942.

Valerie Plesch JAY ALLEN Dr. Jill Biden Elizabeth Dole Foundation

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Dramatic footage from the streets of Zvecan by Radio Evropa e Lirë. Kosovo police confirms five people were arrested, while at least 41 NATO Kosovo Force - KFOR soldiers were injured, most of them Italian and Hungarian troops.

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