Complex sentence: She grew up in a working-class, immigrant neighborhood in Jersey City, New Jersey and earned her bachelor's degree in English Literature, with distinction, at Yale University and her master's degree in journalism at Columbia University.
Split into simpler sentences: She grew up in a working-class, immigrant neighborhood in Jersey City, New Jersey. She earned her bachelor's degree in English Literature, with distinction, at Yale University and a master's degree in journalism at Columbia University.