Simone Orendain

Simone Orendain has returned to work as a freelance multimedia journalist after eight years of caregiving. She reports from the Chicago/Midwest area and Asia, and she regularly covers the Catholic Church in the United States and Asia. She was a foreign correspondent based in Manila for six years before returning to the United States in 2016. In the United States, Simone was an education reporter and regularly covered business and religion.