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Jonathan Abel
Reporter, Southern Maryland and Howard County
Senior, Harvard University

Jonathan worked last summer as an intern at the Miami Herald, where he covered general assignment stories for the paper’s Broward edition. Executive editor of the Harvard Crimson, he also served as a reporter and editorial columnist. He currently freelances for The Boston Globe’s Health & Sciences section. He spent summer 2003 scouring the Library of Congress and National Archives as a research assistant for a book on the Everglades. He has taken such a liking to cops reporting that he listens to his own police scanner at home. A history major and member of Phi Beta Kappa, he expects to graduate in June.
Anjali Athavaley
Reporter, Financial
Junior, University of Texas

Anjali was a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund business reporting intern at the Houston Chronicle last summer. She wrote about real estate, health care, technology, retail and campaign finance. She attended a pre-internship training program at New York University. She was a stringer for the Chronicle’s community section in 2003. She was a senior reporter at the Daily Texan, her campus newspaper, where she began as a general assignment reporter and feature writer. She is fluent in Marathi (an Indian language) and is studying Spanish in Barcelona for eight months this year. She expects to receive a bachelor’s degree in government in May 2006.
Lisa Bonos
Copy Editor, Financial
Senior, University of California, Los Angeles

Lisa is managing editor of the UCLA Daily Bruin. She entered the newspaper as a copy intern in April 2002, then became a copy editor, copy chief, editorial board member and columnist. Last summer, she worked for Mattel, Inc., where she named toys and wrote original copy for such popular brands as Barbie and Polly Pocket. She studied Shakespeare in London and Stratford, England, in summer 2003. She is conversational in Hebrew and pursued Jewish studies in Israel from Sept. 2000 to June 2001. She expects to receive a bachelor’s degree in English in June.
Madia Brown
Assistant News Editor, News Desk
Senior, Norfolk State University

Madia is editor in chief of the biweekly Spartan Echo, the campus newspaper. She was a page design intern at the Detroit News last summer. The previous spring she worked as a page designer at the Virginian-Pilot. Her interest in art dates back to second grade, when she won first prize in an art contest at her elementary school in Green Pond, S.C. She pursued journalism on the staff of her high school paper, where she started as a staff writer and rose to section editor and editor in chief. She expects to receive a bachelor’s degree in journalism in May.
Fulvio Cativo
Reporter, Montgomery County
Senior, University of Maryland, College Park

Fulvio has been an intern at the Plain Dealer in Cleveland (summer 2004) and the Courier Journal in Louisville (summer 2003) as part of the Chips Quinn Scholars Program. He also worked as an intern in the Washington bureau of the Dallas Morning News the first half of 2002. He is a copy editor for Knight Ridder Tribune Information Services in Washington. Last year he was a state house reporter for Capital News Service in Annapolis and covered state government for the Diamondback, the campus newspaper, in 2002. He graduated from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring and received a $10,000 scholarship awarded by The Washington Post’s Young Journalists Development Program and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. He is a native Spanish speaker and also is conversational in French. He expects to receive a bachelor’s degree in journalism in December.
Michael Alison Chandler
Reporter, Loudoun County
Graduate student, University of California, Berkeley

Michael interned last summer at the Salt Lake Tribune in Utah. She spent five months in early 2003 as an intern for the San Francisco-based Center for Investigative Reporting, where she did research for an hour-long radio documentary, “Whose Vote Counts?” She also has worked as an online editor, content developer and a radio producer. As a Coro Fellow in 2000-2001, she studied public policy in California. She is conversational in French and Spanish. She received a bachelor’s degree in American studies from Mills College in Oakland in 1998 and expects to receive a master’s degree in journalism in May.
Mark Chediak
Reporter, Financial
Graduate student, University of California, Berkeley

Mark worked for the Business and Metro sections of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel as an intern last summer. The previous summer he worked as a general assignment reporter at the Napa Valley Register. His work has appeared on the Web site of PBS Frontline. He was an intern reporter at the San Francisco Business Times from August 2002 to March 2003. He worked as a reporter and researcher for the Red Herring, a business and technology magazine, and as a contributing writer for PC World, San Francisco magazine, the Oakland Tribune and the Daily Californian. He is conversational in Spanish. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from UC in 1997 and expects to receive a master’s degree in journalism in May.
Vanessa de la Torre
Reporter, Style
Graduate student, Stanford University

Vanessa worked as an intern reporter the past four summers at the Imperial Valley Press, in El Centro, Calif., her hometown. She is a writer for the Cardinal Inquirer, a publication of Stanford’s graduate journalism program. She also was a contributing writer for the Progressive Review, a Princeton publication. She studied Milton and Shakespeare at University College London in spring 2003 and attended the 2002 Summer Institute of Hispanic Studies at the Universidad de León in Spain. She is fluent in Spanish. She received a bachelor’s degree in English from Princeton in 2004 and expects to receive a master’s degree in journalism in June.
Tetona Dunlap
Photographer
Senior, Creighton University

Tetona is a Chips Quinn Scholar working as an intern photographer at the Lincoln Journal Star in Nebraska. She was an intern photographer last summer at the Associated Press in Seattle. The previous summer, she was a photography intern at the Argus Leader in Sioux Falls, S. D. She has been a photographer for the Creightonian, her campus newspaper, since 2001. She served as photography editor in her junior year. She also was a photographer for Reznetnews.org from August 2003 to May 2004 and for the UNITY newspaper, published by students during the convention in August. She attended the American Indian Journalism Institute at the University of South Dakota in June 2003. She received a bachelor’s in journalism in December.
Walter Gabriel
Reporter, Sports
Junior, Louisiana State University

Walter worked as an intern last summer at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans. He also worked for the UNITY convention newspaper last August. He is a contributing writer to the LSU Daily Reveille. A story he wrote about the racist practices of local bars earned him a first-place award from the Louisiana Press Writers Association in news and feature writing. A print journalism major, he expects to graduate in May 2006.
Nia-malika Henderson
Reporter, City Desk
Graduate student, Columbia University

Nia-Malika worked four years as a news assistant at the New York Times, where she also researched story ideas for the magazine and wrote for the Book Review and Metro sections. She interned last summer at New York Newsday. As a freelancer, she has written book reviews that have appeared in The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle. She also wrote for the Bronx Beat and worked as an editorial assistant at DoubleTake Magazine/DoubleTake Books in Durham, N.C. She received a master’s degree American Studies from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology from Duke University. She expects to receive a master’s degree in journalism in May.
 
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