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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 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

ʀɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ ʟᴜɪ (@richardlui) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“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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“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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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 <a href="/washingtonpost/">The Washington Post</a>:

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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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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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

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
Valerie Plesch (@valerieplesch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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. #dc

According to <a href="/DCPoliceDept/">DC Police Department</a>,  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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Photographing this colorful #LunarNewYear story by Joe Heim was such a wonderful experience. On Saturday the #Vietnamese community gathered at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Virginia to celebrate #Tết as part of the La Vang Lunar New Year Festival washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/…

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My latest story for The World looks at the physician shortage in the US and how a new #Virginia 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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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…

Joseph M. Azam (@josephazam) 's Twitter Profile Photo

To win, ⁦Vice President JD Vance⁩ must do what Trump and Biden — the two men who co-wrote America’s regrettable final chapter in Afghanistan — seemed unwilling to do: Level with the American public about the war and keep our promises to Afghans.  My latest: thehill.com/opinion/481096…