Summary

• Worked with a variety of media outlets and nonprofits to polish their work and edit copy to appeal to different audiences
  
• Developed style guides for growing companies to help navigate the nuances of legal language
  
• Produced an award-winning international news and human rights program

Experience

Lakshna Mehta is a fact-checker, copy editor, and journalist who has covered a variety of topics ranging from global press freedom, to bankruptcy, and everything in between. A member of the American Copy E𒀰ditors Society, Lakshna has edited numerous articles and books for Law360, Erewhon Book⭕s, The Augusta Chronicle, Center for International Relations, among others. While at The August Chronicle, she wrote the publication’s in-house style guide for copy editors and page designers. 

From 2015 to 2016, Lakshna worked as a producer for Missouri public radio station KBIA’s Global Journalist, a program covering international news and human rights issues. There, her team produced a program on climate cha🉐nge that won a 2016 Telly Award.  

Lakshna studied journalism and international relations at the University of Missouri, where she was a senior staff writer and copy editor for The Maneater. She has also꧟ peeked behind the curtain of political campaigning by leading a voter contact camp🐠aign in Georgia.

Education

Lakshna received a🐲 Master of Arts in Journalism, a Bachelor of Journalism, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the University of Missouri.