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Andrea Valdez is a managing editor at The Atlantic. She is the author of How to Be a Texan: The Manual. Before joining The Atlantic in 2021, she was the founding editor in chief of The 19th. She also previously held positions at the Texas Observer, Wired, and Texas Monthly.
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