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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
New lieutenant governor Kounalakis makes statewide election history
Debate over outsourcing, equity as UC workers strike
California’s for-profit college watchdog fails to police as feds back down
Open Reporting: Answers on for-profit colleges are hard to get, even from the state
Proposition 1: What to know about a $4 billion bond for housing, in under a minute
Different backgrounds, similar visions: Lt. Gov candidates on higher ed
Judge sides with California, faults DeVos for delaying student borrower protection
Why Stockton believes a Cal State could seal its comeback
After years of tuition battles, UC and student leaders find common ground
Native American tribes clash with UC over bones of their ancestors
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