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Lindsey McGinnis is a journalist from the Greater Boston area working in print and radio. In May 2018 she graduated from Mount Holyoke College, where she studied international relations and journalism, and spent a semester at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. She is also the recipient of the Minnie Ryan Dwight award for excellence in journalistic writing. Read the winning piece here: "Haunted Dirt: Selling Belchertown’s Broken Dream."

Before her current post at The Christian Science Monitor, Lindsey was a news intern at New England Public Radio in Springfield, covering everything from local politics to millimeter wave technology. As an editorial intern for Wicked Local, she produced several front-page pieces and covered Norwell selectmen meetings for the Patriot Ledger (find these stories in her Portfolio). Lindsey's all-time favorite gig was being Editor-in-Chief of the Mount Holyoke News, her alma mater's independent student newspaper. Read more about her work as a reporter, writer and editor under Experience.