Kaitlin Thorne
Ohio Valley ReSource ReporterKaitlin Thorne is the Criminal & Social Justice reporter for the Ohio Valley ReSource based at partner station WOUB in Athens, OH. She has a background in print media, having served as the editor of The Athens Messenger in Athens and The Gladwin County Record & Clarion in Gladwin, MI.
Prior to being editor she worked as a reporter for the Record & Clarion. She holds a photojournalism degree from Central Michigan University. While she worked in print media she frequently covered the criminal justice system and won an Ohio Associated Press Media Editors award for her coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement. In her spare time, Kaitlin enjoys cooking, creative writing, photography and hiking with her husband and their dog.
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Child poverty is rampant in the Ohio Valley particularly. Kentucky and West Virginia are in the top seven for child poverty rates in the country, with one in five children under age 18 living in poverty. Those numbers trend even higher for children under age 5.
