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Cassie Spodak - Senior Producer for Digital Video News

Cassie Spodak

Senior Producer for Digital Video News

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Cassie Spodak leads CNN's DC digital video news team. She also produces, writes, shoots and edits original news videos.

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Video Why the odds of knowing who won Pennsylvania on election night are ‘almost zero’ 3:52

Four years after covering the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania, CNN’s Sara Murray is back in the Keystone State to find out what’s changed as the threat of misinformation spreads around the state’s mail-in voting.

A formula for calculating kidney function called eGFR only allows two options for race. A web page on UKidney.com illustrates how the formula works.

Black or ‘Other’? Doctors may be relying on race to make decisions about your health

Race correction in medicine is the use of a patient’s race in a scientific equation that can influence how they are treated. Race correction in medicine has pitted medical students against their teachers, attracted the attention of Congress and led to a big lawsuit against the NFL.

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A new lens on America’s past

These are the forgotten and untold stories of America’s past, hosted by CNN’s Abby Phillip, Suzanne Malveaux, Omar Jimenez, Athena Jones, Ryan Young, John Avlon and more. Knowing these stories might reshape your understanding of the disparities the country faces today.

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Video They grew up witnesses to violence, and won’t stop until it does (2020) 3:01

Gen Z activists Maxwell Frost, Jaclyn Corin and Nia White tell CNN they grew up immersed in tragedy – from mass shootings to the senseless deaths of black men and women. They say they won’t stop until the violence does.

Former Senator Fred Harris holds an original copy of the report of the national advisory commission on civil disorders, also known as the "Kerner Report"

Video 90-year-old former Senator: Fighting racism relies on White people 8:28

History Refocused: In 2021, Fred Harris, the last surviving member of the “Kerner Report,” reflected on what the US can still learn from a 1967 commission that sent shockwaves across the country after an investigation into civil unrest and racial inequality in America.

FILE - In this July 24, 1967 file photo, a Michigan State police officer searches a youth on Detroit's 12th Street where looting was still in progress after the previous day's rioting. The last surviving member of the Kerner Commission says he remains haunted that the panel's recommendations on US race relation and poverty were never adopted, but he is hopeful they will be one day. Former U.S. Sen. Fred Harris says 50 years after working on a report to examine the causes of the late 1960s race riots he strongly feels that poverty and structural racism still enflames racial tensions even as the United States becomes more diverse. (AP Photo/File)

More than 50 years before George Floyd’s death, lawmakers predicted a growing racial divide

It’s been a year since George Floyd’s chilling last words, “I can’t breathe,” sent shock waves around the world. A guilty verdict came down April 20, but Black Americans had no time to celebrate the rare occurrence of a White police officer being convicted of the murder of a Black man.

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Black women’s roles in the civil rights movement have been understated – but that’s changing

Claudette Colvin did a revolutionary act nearly 10 months before Rosa Parks.

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Joe Biden takes all 5 votes in tiny township that is one of the first to announce results on Election Day

Former Vice President Joe Biden took all five of the votes cast for president in Dixville Notch, a tiny New Hampshire township along the US-Canada border that is among the first places in the country to make its presidential preference known.

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Video ALS didn’t stop Ady Barkan from making a mark on 2020 4:18

Ady Barkan was diagnosed with ALS in 2016. He can no longer walk or eat on his own but he grilled 2020 Democratic contenders on health care reform.

The town of Windsor, New Hampshire has been using this voting machine since 1892.

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Video This New Hampshire town’s voting system is 130 years old 2:54

The town of Windsor, New Hampshire, has been using the same paper ballot box for 130 years and election officials say it’s one of the safest ways to vote.

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How Philadelphia’s mayor is fighting a pandemic that’s hitting the city’s black community hard

Look at the graph of coronavirus cases posted on the city of Philadelphia’s website, and the peak appears to be behind them.

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This Republican mayor is taking a more aggressive approach to stop coronavirus than his GOP governor

Tulsa, Oklahoma, Mayor G.T. Bynum says one of the worst days of his life was the day he decided to shut down the restaurants.

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This Midwestern mayor is fighting to get her residents to take coronavirus seriously

Topeka, Kansas, Mayor Michelle De La Isla has a mission: Convince the residents of her medium-sized, Midwestern city who have not been touched by the coronavirus pandemic that this is their fight too.

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Video Biden supporter had to switch candidates. She chose … 2:44

In Des Moines, Iowa, caucus goers took on new rules, multiple candidates and for one group of Biden supporters, unexpected results.

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They grew up miles from the White House but went to Iowa to be heard

The students were bubbling with energy when they gathered at Ronald Reagan National Airport on their way to Des Moines, Iowa.

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Video Talking about immigration, across the political divide 4:31

CNN filmed a 90 minute conversation with Democrats and Republicans talking about immigration and hosted by “Living Room Conversations” in North Carolina.

Cassie Spodak is a senior producer for CNN’s digital video team covering Washington and national politics. She graduated from Barnard College in New York City before starting at CNN on the New York Assignment Desk. She later moved to the Washington, DC bureau and in the 2016 election traveled the country covering presidential candidates and issues affecting voters.