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Felicia Mello
Felicia Mello is an award-winning, multimedia journalist who has contributed stories to The Washington Post, The Nation, NPR, and CNN’s Parts Unknown, among others. She comes to CALmatters from Las Vegas, where she built the digital team at Vegas Seven magazine and served as the Nevada reporter for the Center for Public Integrity’s State Integrity Investigation. Prior to that, she edited a network of hyperlocal news websites in the Sacramento region for Patch.com. Felicia was a Kaiser Health Reporting Fellow at The Boston Globe, and formed part of the UC Berkeley team that garnered the 2006 George Polk Award for Radio Reporting. A native Californian, she holds a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley and speaks fluent Spanish. She's part country girl, part city slicker, so Sacramento suits her just fine.
The latest by Felicia Mello
Should community colleges build housing?
The soul-crushing cost of college in California, explained
A Game of College: Can you get into college and finish a degree without taking on too much debt?
Cal Grant expansion tops list of college affordability bills: Track them here
Send us your questions about college affordability
As Trump rolls back student loan protections, an Obama-era watchdog brings the fight to California
Fewer schools, more accountability: How for-profit college bills could affect California
Private colleges wary as California legislator calls for crackdown on legacy admits
The #RealCollege guru offers three ways to fix California’s student financial aid
California lawmakers debate how to prevent another college admissions scandal
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