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    Cynthia R. Greenlee

    Senior Editor, The Counter

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    Portrait of Cynthia R. Greenlee

    Portrait of Cynthia R. Greenlee

    i. Biography

    Dr. Cynthia R. Greenlee is a North Carolina-based historian, journalist, and editor whose writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Vox, Essence, and The Nation. She earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina and a PhD in history from Duke University, and she won the James Beard Foundation Award for food writing in 2020.