The Maine Monitor and its publisher, The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, are pleased to welcome three new additions to the independent, nonprofit news organization.
Alexa Foust has joined The Monitor for the summer via the Institute for Nonprofit News and Columbia Journalism School Fellowship Program. She will focus her reporting on criminal justice and mental health.
Foust worked in the corrections system and as a paralegal for three years before graduating this spring from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she focused on New York City’s detention centers.
She was recently awarded the 2024 Silurians Press Club Award. A former New Englander, she hopes to serve the Maine community by reporting on underrepresented communities.
Emily Hedegard joins MCPIR for the summer as a nonprofit management intern. Hedegard is a double major in English and communications with a minor in writing at the University of New England. She is editor-in-chief of UNE’s student paper, The Bolt.
She previously interned for various local papers and academic journals, including the Saco Bay News, The Portland Press Herald and Across the Disciplines. A lifelong Mainer, in her free time Hedegard loves to garden, practice yoga and explore local trails — the Eastern Trail is her favorite.
Nadia Saliba recently joined MCPIR’s board of directors. Saliba spent 17 years working for the investment bank Goldman Sachs in their New York and London offices, where she ran institutional sales groups within their fixed income, currency and commodities division.
After retiring from Goldman Sachs, and returning to Maine in 2018, she started Flying Point Consulting, a real estate and financial consulting group. She has consulted on off-grid island home construction, affordable housing property asset dispositions and luxury condominium development.
Saliba also serves on the board of the MaineHealth Maine Medical Center, as a director on the General Alumni Association for her high school alma mater, Phillips Exeter Academy, and as vice president of the Freeport Historical Society.
