Heather McIlvaine

GlobalPost

Heather McIlvaine is a freelance journalist based in Los Angeles. She is currently a graduate student in the Specialized Journalism M.A. program at USC. Her focus is on globalization. She has reported on issues of religion and culture for KPCC, a public media network covering southern California. Previously she lived in Munich, Germany, where she wrote about business and IT for the software blog, SAP.info.


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