Her work has been published in The Huffington Post, The Orange County Register and The Yomiuri Shimbun. Mary graduated with honors from Chapman University in 2007. During her tenure as editor in chief for the campus paper, she was selected as the 2006 Orange County Register Journalism Student of the Year. Mary was born in Anchorage, Alaska and enjoys traveling and learning about peoples’ lives. She is currently a graduate student in broadcast journalism at Columbia University. She covers charter schools for the website and is embedded this semester at Democracy Prep in Harlem.