Brown bag lunch with a journalist

Laura Yuen, reporter for Minnesota Public Radio, will be our featured guest at our next Brown Bag Lunch with A Journalist, at noon Wednesday, September 30 at the East Lake Public Library, 2727 E. Lake St., Minneapolis. Laura covers St. Paul and has reported extensively on Minnesota’s Somali-American community. She came to MPR in January 2008 after eight years of writing for daily newspapers, including the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader. Laura is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and is a native of the Chicago area. Her work has also appeared in The Boston Globe and The (Portland) Oregonian. A three-part series on Hmong chicken farmers in the Ozarks won a national award from the Asian American Journalists Association. Laura lives in Minneapolis with her husband.