[1] Hegland obtained her degree from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.
She began working for National Journal in 2001 after her internship with the Washington Monthly was over.
Hegland also served as a policy advisor for the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Hegland won her award for a series of articles on the captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba:[4]
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