As a Mitchell Scholar, Genevieve Finn studied Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin. After her Mitchell year, she deployed to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, a remote US research station on the southern tip of Ross Island. There, she worked as a steward, serving up to 1,200 Americans and Kiwis during the austral summer. Most recently, Genevieve bartended and waitressed on the award-winning McKinley Explorerluxury train, which covers more than 300 miles from Anchorage through the Alaskan interior to Denali National Park. Genevieve has a bachelor's in English from UCLA in 2020, where she completed her degree in 2.5 years and graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. She has worked as a reporter for a local newspaper called The Malibu Times and the magazine Language; had journalism internships with The New York Times Australia Bureau and GQ Australia; and won awards, fellowships, and recognition from the Overseas Press Club Foundation, ProPublica Data Institute, California News Publishers Association, and the Steven Sotloff Memorial 2Lives Foundation. In the past half-decade, she has traveled to all seven continents and lived on five. She is now back home in California pursuing a full-time journalism career in the US.