Malia Mendez is a reporting fellow at the Los Angeles Times. She previously worked at The Times as an entertainment intern and editorial assistant. Mendez graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s in journalism and began her reporting career at the Stanford Daily. Her byline can be found in Los Angeles Magazine, the Orange County Register and Peninsula Press. She is from Irvine.
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