Meredith previously worked at The St. Joseph News-Press in St. Joseph, Mo.; The Messenger in Fort Dodge, Iowa; and The Aledo Times Record in Aledo, Ill. Her work has been honored with awards from the Iowa Newspaper Association, the Missouri Better Newspaper Contest, the Missouri State Teachers Association and the Illinois Press Association. She was a 2004 recipient of a Journalism Fellowship in Child and Family Policy from the University of Maryland. An Iowa native, Meredith graduated from the University of Iowa.