cheri lucas
About Cheri
Cheri is a thirteen-time award-winning newspaper correspondent at the San Mateo Daily Journal, community manager at Trazzler, and marketing assistant at Mills College. A San Francisco Peninsula native, Cheri grew up in Redwood Shores.
She strives to balance her nomadic tendencies with a desire to stay put and fatten her savings account. She knows, however, that wanderlust will never fade, and traveling is a lifelong habit. In the past, she has interned at the Cannes Film Festival, taught English to 700 students in Eastern Thailand, gotten completely lost in Laos and Vietnam, and spent summers writing and sipping lattes in Montreal. From thrift shopping in Tokyo’s Harajuku to following the beat of techno into dim lounges and clubs in Paris, Bangkok, Siem Reap, and Taipei, her adventures span the globe.
Also interested in education, she has worked with language arts teachers, led workshops for middle schoolers, and has written for leading K-12 education publications, from Education.com to Edutopia.
Cheri has published writing and photography in newspapers, magazines, websites, and literary journals. She has an MFA in nonfiction from Goucher College and a BA in screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University. She lives in San Francisco, but dreams of living in a cottage on the French Riviera.