Elissa Mendes is an Ottawa-based journalist reporting on social issues and business. She is in her final year of journalism and health science at Carleton University, and she is the editor-in-chief of the Charlatan, Carleton's independent student newspaper. There, her in-depth reporting on hazing in a Carleton sorority spurred new campus legislation and won a Canadian University Press investigative award.
Elissa was previously a staff reporter at the Toronto Star covering breaking news. Her work has also appeared in the Ottawa Citizen.
