About Author: Melissa Hoon

Website
http://www.melissahoon.com
Description
Melissa writes for the Orange County Register and is a graduate student at Cal State Fullerton with a degree in journalism and American studies. She reports on domestic and international humanitarian issues, focusing on sex trafficking, a form of modern-day slavery that forces individuals into sexual exploitation, many of whom are under age 18. Melissa’s work has taken her across the globe, including to Vietnam twice where she volunteered and worked as a foreign news correspondent, and to South Africa where she lived and volunteered at a home for abandoned, abused and neglected children, and reported on the poor aiding the poor in opposition to receiving government assistance. Melissa’s graduate work, equal to a thesis, focused on the Civil War, abolitionism and varying forms of slavery, primarily human trafficking with a concentration on rape and prostituted underage girls. Melissa has been credited as Editorial Assistant for the American Quarterly, the flagship journal for American studies, produced at University of Southern California, and has held several editor positions at the Daily Titan. She has been a guest speaker in university journalism classes and has volunteered teaching journalism skills at numerous high schools. Currently, Melissa is a staff writer for LA YOGA Magazine and proctors exams to students with disabilities at Chapman University.

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