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

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

Maydeen Merino
Photo of a man with a backpack, wearing a cross around his neck, standing in front of a hotel.

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

Maydeen Merino
Two officers stand in the encampment. While the black metaling fencing acts like a boarder around the two officers.

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

Maydeen Merino
Aldo Richardson stands in front of a Fairmont hotel also working as a PEP-V hotel

Verbal abuse and loitering motivated ANC 7F to vote in favor of removing a bus shelter on Minnesota Avenue

Maydeen Merino

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

Maydeen Merino
Two porta potties placed against a black fence with a handwashing station

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

Maydeen Merino
David, a homeless resident sits on a bench in the encampment while staring at the fencing around the park

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

Maydeen Merino
Three waste collectors prepare to load a homeless tent into hopper of a garbage truck

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

Spencer Donovan
tents on a broad sidewalk with an LED light installation above them