Ashley is the U.S. Partnerships Manager in the Google News Lab and a freelance writer based in New York City. She is a former Miss Long Island. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @ashleyalese.
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When your city is being ravaged by a global pandemic, every curl being perfect becomes less and less important.
, August 14, 2020
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