Kiersten Hacker

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Kiersten Hacker is a senior at the University of Maryland from Long Island, New York, covering the governor's office for Capital News Service. She is the editor-in-chief of the University of Maryland student publication Stories Beneath the Shell and she has previously worked with Montgomery Community Media and the Chesapeake Bay Magazine.

Foreign Reporting

Disastrous Pakistan floods shock villagers, UMD alum

Over the course of a month, floodwaters in Pakistan rose about 5 to 10 feet, destroying villages, killing livestock and thousands of people and displacing millions in search of shelter and clean drinking water.