Mara Van Ells
Mara Van Ells is an aspiring digital journalist. Mara earned undergraduate degrees in theater and journalism at the University of Minnesota in 2011. She worked as a student reporter and as a freelancer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune before landing a job as the health and education reporter for the Bismarck Tribune in Bismarck, N.D.
She moved to the San Francisco Bay area in 2012 where she initially worked as a full time gymnastics coach and freelanced for Silicon Valley Community Newspapers. She served as the editor and reporter for the weekly newspaper The Campbell Reporter.