Maydeen Merino

Shelters and Outreach Reporter

Editorial Intern — Fall 2021
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Maydeen Merino is a graduate student at Georgetown University studying journalism. She received her Bachelors in Journalism at the University of La Verne in Southern California. At La Verne she worked on her school’s newspaper and magazine as a writer, editor, and photographer. Maydeen also was part of the University of La Verne women’s basketball team. Before moving to D.C she was a reporter at The Mountain News, a small community newspaper located in Lake Arrowhead, CA. Maydeen also contributed to publications such as NBClx, Scriberr News, the Women’s Media Center, and the San Dimas Community Post.

Articles by Maydeen

• DC’s PEP-V hotels planned to extend through hypothermia season

• DC evicts more than 30 homeless residents from park at New Jersey and O NW, surrounds the site in fences

• Aldo Richardson, homeless veteran, moves into PEP-V hotel with hope for permanent supportive housing

• As DC lapses on porta pottie contract, public restroom pilot programs inch forward

• NPS closes second park on Capitol Hill, once again pushing out encampment residents

• DC government removes tents, injures one resident, houses others, and deploys concrete barriers to enforce a ‘pedestrian passageway’

• DC is moving some encampment residents into housing. What about those not “on the list?”