Rachel Heimann Mercader will join Mercury News as a reporter to cover local news in Contra Costa County. Mercader begins in September.
Recently, she served a government watchdog and breaking news reporter at the Naples Daily News. She previously contributed to Her Campus,an online women’s magazine at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn.
Mercader has a B.A. in history from Rhodes College.
You can congratulate Mercader on Twitter.
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