Natalia Mochernak
NATALIA MOCHERNAK (she/her) is a third-year Communication and Spanish student minoring in sports leadership and management. She is a policy fellow in the Communications department and believes that storytelling and advocacy has the power to change lives. She hopes that through her role at LPPI, she will be able to share and uplift the incredible work conducted by researchers at the institute that works to highlight injustice in Los Angeles and beyond.
At UCLA, Natalia is the editor of Enterprise – the Daily Bruin’s investigative journalism section – where she also previously served as an assistant news editor. She also competes on the UCLA competitive club tennis team where she helped her team win nationals last year. Last spring, she interned at EdSource – a California education news outlet – and spent her summer as a quality management intern at MedPoint Management, a managed care company that helps bring quality healthcare to thousands. This school year, she will also be working as a College Journalism Network fellow with CalMatters where she will report on issues within K-12 and higher education in California.
