Meet the director of dance mentoring young Black girls in Germantown
It's a studio where the girls can be free to express themselves through art and a place where they belong.
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Wakisha Bailey is an Emmy Award-winning journalist who joined CBS News Philadelphia as a reporter in July 2021.
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A Rochester, New York native, she previously worked as a morning reporter at WROC, the city's CBS affiliate, for two years. She also spent four years on the assignment desk at WMAQ-NBC in Chicago. Wakisha is a proud graduate of Tuskegee University.
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It's a studio where the girls can be free to express themselves through art and a place where they belong.
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