Hayley is a master’s student with a concentration in public policy journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. She was born and raised in Bloomington, Minn.
This semester, she is covering anything that connects our nation’s capital to the great state of Minnesota for the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune’s Washington, DC bureau. She was named for Halley’s comet, which was passing overhead on the day she was born. Her parents took the spelling of her name from Hayley Mills.
Hayley is a terrible blogger — very forgetful — but has vowed to be better about it, as the blog is being heralded as the future of her profession. She extends her thanks the masochists who read the mundane minutia of her life as she tries to find her blogging voice.
A Minnesota girl at heart, Hayley has also been the summer features intern at the Star Tribune; a public life and education reporter for the Columbia Missourian; and cut her journalistic teeth as a high-school intern at the Southwest Journal/Skyway News. She is a 2008 graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and holds a bachelor’s degree in History and Japanese with a minor in English.
When she isn’t committing journalism, you can probably find her scouring the internet for any information about her beloved Minnesota Twins.
