Haloren Mellendorf is a reporter with The Fuller Project for International Reporting, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit dedicated to investigating and reporting on issues impacting women around the world. She has covered gender, immigration, politics, and the environment. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Lily, and The Progressive magazine. Haloren earned her bachelor’s degree in Journalism and International Relations from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with certificate degrees in Middle Eastern Studies and African Studies. During college she wrote for The Daily Cardinal, one of the oldest student newspapers in the country. Haloren has also spent a year studying Arabic at the Language Institute of Fez, Morocco.