Malia Mendez is an editorial assistant at the Los Angeles Times. A previous summer 2023 intern on the Entertainment and Arts Desk, she recently graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s in journalism. Mendez got her start in journalism at the Stanford Daily, where she worked as managing editor of the newspaper’s Arts & Life section. Her byline can be found in Los Angeles Magazine, the Orange County Register and the Peninsula Press. She is from Irvine.
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