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INVASION:
How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals &
Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores
Sponsored By:
MICHELLE MALKIN
BIO
Michelle Malkin began her career in newspaper journalism with the Los Angeles Daily News, where she worked as an editorial writer and weekly columnist from 1992-94. In 1995, she was named Warren Brookes Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. In 1996, she joined the editorial board of the Seattle Times, where she penned editorials and weekly columns for three and a half years.
Malkin’s work has been cited in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Reader’s Digest, and U.S. News and World Report. Her freelance work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Reason magazine, and National Review West. Her wide-ranging – and news-breaking -- commentary has been honored by several national organizations. Among the journalism awards Malkin has received:
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The 1997 Evert Clark Science Award for journalists under the age of 30, for commentary and analysis of environmental regulations and science policy.
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The 1997 National Society of Newspaper Columnists writing award, for general interest columnists in newspapers with a circulation of at least 100,000 (2nd place).
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The 1998 Second Amendment Foundation's James Madison Award, for excellence in journalism "promoting the individual right to keep and bear arms."
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The 1998 Council on Governmental Ethics Laws (COGEL) national award for outstanding service for the cause of governmental ethics and leadership, for investigative columns that exposed campaign finance abuses by Washington state Democrats, Republicans, and political organizations.
Malkin, the daughter of Filipino immigrants, was born in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1970 and raised in southern New Jersey. She worked as a press inserter, tax preparation aide, and network news librarian; she is also a lapsed classical pianist. Malkin’s hobbies include crocheting and pier fishing with her dad. She also is editor of porkwatch.com, a web site devoted to exposing and publicizing corporate welfare.
Malkin is a graduate of Oberlin College. She lives with her husband, Jesse, in North Bethesda, Maryland.
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