Lourdes Medrano is a freelance journalist based in Arizona. Her work is featured in Audubon magazine, Arizona Highways, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlantic, Latina magazine, and various other publications.
Lourdes Medrano studied journalism at the University of Arizona.
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