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Aymar Jean
Reporter, Prince William County
Junior, University of Michigan
Aymar was a features intern at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
this winter. He was a summer 2004 intern at the Plain Dealer
in Cleveland, where he wrote primarily for the business page
but also for the Metro and arts sections. He was awarded a $5,000
Newhouse Scholarship. A National Merit Scholar, he covers the
university administration, affirmative action and on-campus
research for the Michigan Daily. He also is a contributor to
the Michigan Citizen, a weekly. In summer 2002, he interned
as a researcher and fact-checker at New York Press, an alternative
weekly. He is in the Honors Program at Michigan and majors in
political science and American culture. He expects to graduate
in May 2006. |
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Daniel Light
Reporter, Sports
Senior, University of Maryland
Daniel has been a news aide in the Sports section at The Washington
Post since December 2003. He began freelancing for the section
the next year. He worked last summer as an intern at the Baltimore
Sun, where he covered the NBA draft, Baltimore Ravens, the Booz-Allen
Classic on the PGA Tour and other major sports stories. He was
a campus stringer for Sports Illustrated in 2003. He also worked
as an intern reporter at the Post-Star in Glens Falls, N.Y.,
and as a freelancer for the Associated Press. He studied in
Oaxaca, Mexico, for the winter semester. A journalism major,
he expects to graduate in May. |
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Emily Messner
Writer, Editorial
Emily has worked as a news aide on the foreign desk at The Washington
Post since 2002, during which time she has written stories for
Style, the Extras and the Sunday Source. In summer 2001, she
was a Page One intern at USA Today, where she wrote Newsline
for the domestic and international editions, helped write headlines
and proofread pages. She edited several community newspapers
as a copy editor at Patuxent Publishing Co. from March 2001
to March 2002. She attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore
County, where she was editor in chief of the Retriever Weekly,
the campus paper, from May 1999 to May 2000, and the opinion
editor from October 1997 to May 1999. A skilled debater, she
has won several local, national and international awards and
was the top-ranked female speaker at the American Parliamentary
Debate Association’s 2000 National Championship. |
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Kendra Nichols
Copy Editor, Metro
Senior, University of Maryland
Kendra worked as a copy editing intern at the Baltimore Sun
last fall. She was an editorial intern at the Chronicle of Higher
Education last summer. The previous summer she worked as a copy
editing intern for a direct marketing firm in Frederick, Maryland.
She worked as an editorial intern for VIBE magazine in Summer
2002. She has freelanced for the Prince George’s Post
as a writer and was travel editor and staff writer for Unwind!
Magazine, a campus entertainment publication. She is deputy
managing editor at the Diamondback, the independent student
newspaper on campus. She also was copy editor at the paper in
spring and fall 2004. She was valedictorian of her high school
class in 2001. She expects to receive a bachelor’s degree
in journalism in May. |
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Tommy Nguyen
Reporter, Metro & Style
Graduate student, University of California, Berkeley
Tommy was an intern in the Style section of The Washington Post
last summer. He has been contributing features to the Los Angeles
Times for the past three years. His arts reporting also has
appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and LA Weekly, his news
reporting in the Christian Science Monitor and his television
work on ABC News Now, among others. He has worked as an arts
editor for New Times, an alternative weekly, and for an online
filmmaking magazine, both in Los Angeles. He also was an intern
for Entertainment Weekly in 1999. He graduated from the University
of California, Los Angeles, with a bachelor’s degree in
English. He expects to receive a master’s degree in journalism
with a concentration in television and documentary in May. |
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Philip Rucker
Reporter, Prince George’s County
Junior, Yale University
Philip was an intern reporter at the Times-Picayune newspaper
in New Orleans last summer. He conducted on-campus research
for the New York Times in the fall of 2003. He is news editor
of the Yale Daily News, where he began in 2002 as a general
assignment reporter and then became a beat reporter. While in
high school, he worked as a reporter for SAVVY, the teen section
of the Savannah Morning News. He was the valedictorian of his
high school in Savannah, Ga. A history major, he is nearly fluent
in Spanish. He expects to graduate in May 2006. |
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Lindsay Ryan
Reporter, City Desk
Junior, Brown University
Lindsay has been a freelancer for the Providence Journal since
January 2003. Her work also has appeared in the Brown Alumni
Magazine and the College Hill Independent. A National Merit
Scholar, she grew up in Washington. She was a writer and editor
of the biweekly student paper at the rural Vermont high school
she attended for two years. Nearly fluent in Spanish, she studied
abroad in Ecuador last semester. She is studying in South Africa
this semester. Her major is development studies with an interdisciplinary
concentration in the processes of social, political and economic
change in developing countries. She expects to graduate in May
2006. |
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Tiffany Sakato
Graphic Artist, News Art
Junior, Northwestern University
Tiffany has worked as a graphic designer at the Mary and Leigh
Block Museum of Art in Evanston, Ill., since fall 2003. She
is a graphics reporting intern at the Mail & Guardian in
Johannesburg, South Africa, this spring. Last summer, she was
a graphics reporting intern at USA Today. As a graphic designer
for Pick-Staiger Concert Hall in Evanston in Spring 2003, she
designed programs, newspaper ads, posters and flyers for concerts,
operas and recitals. She worked as an intern reporter two summers
(2003 and 2001) at the Reporter in Vacaville, Calif. Last fall
she studied in Italy. She speaks some Italian, Spanish and French.
Her major is journalism and art theory and practice, and she
expects to graduate in June 2006. |
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Delphine Schrank
Copy Editor, Foreign
Graduate, Columbia University
Delphine worked as an intern in the Paris bureau of Time magazine
from November 2001 to July 2002. She also worked as a sub-editor
for the Atlantic and U.S. editions of the magazine in London.
She was a stringer in Paris for Sports Illustrated. She edited
a journal published by the School of International and Public
Affairs and taught international law to her peers as a teaching
assistant. As an intern in Human Rights Watch’s International
Justice Department, she researched and wrote about prospects
for domestic war crimes trials in Bosnia. She received a top
honors bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in
modern history from Oxford University in 2001. She is a native
French speaker who is proficient in Italian and knows basic
German. She received a master’s degree in international
affairs from Columbia University in the fall. |
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Sandhya Somashekhar
Reporter, Fairfax County
Graduate student, University of California, Berkeley
Sandhya wrote about education for the Argus in Fremont, Calif.,
for three years. Her work also appeared frequently in the Oakland
Tribune. A commentary she wrote aired this year on National
Public Radio in San Francisco, and she also assisted with the
San Francisco Chronicle’s election coverage. She was a
reporter for the Gazette in Landover for most of 2000 and a
part time reporter for the Prince George’s Sentinel in
Seabrook in Fall 1999. She also worked as an intern at Congressional
Quarterly in 1999. She grew up in Bel Air, a suburb outside
Baltimore, and received a bachelor’s in journalism from
the University of Maryland, College Park. She expects to receive
a master’s degree in May 2006. She is advanced in Kannada
(of India) and speaks some Hindi. |
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Naseem Sowti
Reporter, Health
Graduate, University of Central Florida
Naseem is our 2005 Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellow. She
is a senior staff writer for the Central Florida Future, the
biweekly independent student newspaper at the University of
Central Florida, where she still writes regularly about health
issues and initiated two weekly health and science columns.
She has been a freelancer for several local newspapers and magazines,
covering issues from hurricanes to flu season. In September,
she approached the Seminole County Government Television (SGTV)
about implementing a health segment, which she now produces
monthly. She is fluent in Farsi. She received a bachelor’s
degree in molecular biology and microbiology in May. |
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Kimberly Sweet Rubenstein
Copy Editor, National
Graduate Student, University of Kansas
Kimberly worked as a copy editor and reporter at the Kansas
City Star from April 2003 to March 2004. She has since worked
at the paper as a freelancer. She covered higher education for
the Herald-Sun in Durham, N.C., from 2001 to 2003. She has had
internships at the Virginian-Pilot (summer 2001) in reporting;
the Omaha World-Herald in Omaha (summer 2000) in reporting and
copy editing; and the Madison Daily Leader in Madison, S.D.
(summer 1998) in reporting and photography. She worked as a
reporter and news editor of the Daily Nebraskan between August
1997 and May 2001. She received a bachelor’s in journalism
from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, in 2001. She expects
to complete a master’s degree in May 2006. |
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Dan Zak
Reporter, Style
Graduate, American University
Dan Zak was an intern for Entertainment Weekly in the spring.
He worked as a staff writer for the Buffalo News in New York
last summer and contributes to PopMatters. He has written reviews
and features for Artvoice, Buffalo’s alternative weekly,
and was managing editor of the Eagle, the twice-weekly student
newspaper at American. He also worked as a staff writer, copy
editor, assistant editor and editor of the paper. A lover of
movies, he studied film in Prague in fall 2003. A journalism
major and literature minor, he graduated in December. |
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