Hayley is a master’s student with a concentration in public policy journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. This semester, she is covering K-12 and, occasionally, higher education for the Columbia Missourian. 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 (Minneapolis) Star Tribune 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. She’s happy to be “back west” and closer to her family, her friends and her beloved Minnesota Twins.
