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 E🐼ditors Society, Lakshna has edited numerous a༺rticles and books for Law360, Erewhon Books, 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 asꦜ 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 change 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 campaign in Georgia.

Education

Lakshna received a Master of Arts in Journalism, a Ba🏅chelor o൩f Journalism, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the University of Missouri.