BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 3, 2022
Mehr Sher comes to Maine from North Carolina by way of six years of reporting in Pakistan, and then a stop in New York to complete a masters in investigative journalism at Columbia Journalism School. She has reported on the Afghan refugee resettlement program, the effectiveness of hate crime legislation in Indiana, and systemic health failures in Pakistan. She speaks five languages. She will be working on stories related to how climate change affects Mainers, the growing clean energy economy, PFAS, and other environmental issues.