Lillian Mongeau
Lillian R. Mongeau comes to Berkeley’s School of Journalism after a few years of traveling, teaching, and writing. Since arriving at the Journalism School in the fall of 2009, Mongeau has reported for Oakland North, where she writes primarily about education. She also began writing occasionally for GOOD.is as an education correspondent in 2010.
Before coming to school, Mongeau wrote a regular guest column in The Oregonian from 2007 to 2009 on the trials and tribulations of Millenials. She covered everything from the best title for a long-time live-in boyfriend to the challenge of caring for returning Iraqi veterans.
From 2005-2007 Mongeau lived on the Texas-Mexico border teaching seventh grade English at Roma Middle School as a Teach For America corps member and eating vegetarian breakfast tacos, sometimes two, on Saturdays.
Lillian has traveled throughout Europe, the United States, and a bit in India and South America. She speaks halting Spanish, a few words of German, and fluent skier-ese. She is a 2004 graduate of Barnard College in New York City.