"Peculiar traveling suggestions are dancing lessons from God."

-Kurt Vonnegut

Melanie Lidman is the Jerusalem Affairs reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Israel's English-language newspaper, who often embraces peculiar traveling suggestions and loves burritos. For a selection of her published articles, please click here.

Contact: melanie@willtravelforfood.org.

 

As the only Jerusalem metro reporter, her beat encompasses municipality affairs, police, crime,  politics, religious issues, culture, and just about everything within the municipal borders of Jerusalem. She also covered the January 25 revolution in Egypt. Read her blog Notes in the Cracks, where she shares the stories behind the headlines.

Previously, Melanie was a features freelancer for the local weekly sections of the Jerusalem Post. She also worked at Outside Magazine in Santa Fe, New Mexico and spent a summer bicycling from Canada to Mexico. Melanie graduated from the University of Maryland with a triple major in Spanish, Journalism, and Ultimate Frisbee. Though Jerusalem has one of the highest concentrations of journalists of any city in the world, Melanie is one of the only journalists in the city that travels almost exclusively by bicycle. Her bike’s name is Savlanut (Patience).

 

2,034 miles, 2 flat tires, 16 boxes of frozen perogies:

Bike trip from Vancouver, BC to Tijuana, Mexico, Summer 2009

 

 

Read the Team Green Jello Blog here.

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