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Kyra Baker
Highlights
- Fact checker for The Balance, reviewing articles for accuracy and adding inline citations
- Fact-checks, researches, and edits for the Art Papers Magazine, an Atlanta, Georgia-based art magazine
- Over 10 years of experience fact checking culture, arts, general publishing, and finance related content.
- Former science fiction researcher and editor
Experience
Kyra Baker is a fact-checker with nearly 10 years of experience working and assisting on editorial projects within the culture, arts, and publishing spaces. For the past eight years, she has worked as a fact-checker at Art Papers Magazine, published by Art Papers, a nonprofit organization with an educational mission to provide accessible forums for presenting contemporary art and culture in the world today.
Kyra has fact-checked and edited for Rosarium Publishing, the publishers of the science fiction anthology, "Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond." She leverages this experience in her work at The Balance, fact checking content for accuracy across a variety of financial topics.
Education
Kyra earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California, studying political science and cinematic arts.
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