Edwin 'Teddy' Amenabar, University of Maryland

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        Edwin 'Teddy' Amenabar, University of Maryland

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                                                        My name is Teddy Amenabar and I am from
                                                        Burtonsville, Maryland (near Silver Spring).
                                                        Like my Twitter bio says, I do love long
                                                        walks on the beach but I am also an avid
                                                        swimmer and often you'll find me listening
                                                        to some song by The Head and the Heart. If
                                                        you like nerdy comments about the next
                                                        Marvel movie, feel free to follow me on
                                                        Twitter @TeddyAmen. At the University of
                                                        Maryland, I worked at The Diamondback —
                                                        the independent student newspaper — as
                                                        the first online managing editor. Last year, I
                                                        also was the web developer for Press
                                                        Uncuffed, a nonprofit created by Dana
                                                        Priest and some students at the college in
                                                        partnership with CPJ to advocate for
                                                        imprisoned journalists worldwide. I see
                                                        social media and web development as tools
                                                        to present articles in new and innovative
ways, further educating readers on a topic or issue. I really hope I can play some role in telling
those stories and I can't say enough how excited I am to start interning at The Washington Post.

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                           anan        an , ale University

                                            EATU ES

                                                        The closest rhyme that anan has found to
                                                        her name is 'banana' without the last A.
                                                        Though born in the blistering Chinese
                                                        South, anan grew up through long
                                                        Canadian winters in Toronto, subsisting on
                                                        a combination of poutine and fried rice. A
                                                        self conscious expat, she loved the ' '
                                                        before Drake made it cool. anan just
                                                        graduated from ale with a major in
                                                        English, for which she wrote her senior
                                                        essay on representations of journalism in
                                                         oberto Bola o's novel       . Previously,
                                                         anan worked as a Local News intern at the
                                                        Pittsburgh Post Ga ette, where she
                                                        unexpectedly came to love baseball games
                                                        and eagle watching. She is fascinated by
                                                        stories of displacement, mobility, and
                                                        community building, and her long term
                                                        goal is to be an immigration or education
reporter. utside of stretching her reporting muscles this summer, anan's excited to try out all
the bike trails and noodle shops that D.C. has to offer.

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               ai      iddi     i, University of           ebras a in oln

                                            MET

                                                     I'm a journalist and recent graduate of the
                                                     University of Nebraska. No, I've never gone
                                                     cow tipping. But my reporting has taken me
                                                     from Lincoln to far flung places such as
                                                     Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Santo Domingo,
                                                     Dominican epublic. My most memorable
                                                     experience in a foreign land, however, was
                                                     a summer in sultry Little ock, Arkansas.
                                                     There, I spent days covering state politics
                                                     for the Arkansas Democrat Ga ette and
                                                     nights at home fending off cockroaches the
                                                     si e of small mammals a full time job. I've
                                                     also interned at The Boston Globe, where I
                                                     reported on everything from a rogue deer's
                                                     harrowing dash through a li uor store to a
                                                     mass discarding of books at The Boston
                                                     Public Library, an issue that struck close to
                                                     my heart. An interest in race and books
                                                     and books on race sparked my passion
for journalism, and I hope to one day make a career out of shining light on the struggles of
underrepresented populations here and around the world. I also hope my high school maga ine
won't be the last one I ever work for.

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             i     an   e , University of Montana

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                                         riginally from Southern California, I sought
                                       refuge in the mountains of Montana. I enjoy
                                       the outdoors, baseball and explaining why
                                       that album you like isn't as good as this
                                       other one. Though I love writing, college
                                       helped me find my niche in the editing and
                                       production side of journalism, culminating
                                       in serving as editor of my college paper and
                                       UM's Native News Project, a publication
                                       that investigates issues on Montana
                                       reservations. I started retired from stand
                                       up comedy at age after three sold out
                                       shows at the Cielo ista Elementary Talent
                                       Show.

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                   Molly        oberts,    arvard

                            EDIT     IAL

                                      Molly is a rising senior at Harvard studying
                                      English. She enjoys writing for The Crimson,
                                      where she is currently serving her term as
                                      Editorial Chair, and eating almost
                                      anywhere. She interned last summer at
                                      NP , but is excited to jump back into the
                                      world of print and opinion this time around.
                                      Besides food and radio, Molly loves long car
                                      rides, books, dogs, people, oxford comma
                                      (alas), and lots of other things. She wrote
                                      her first and, so far, only Washington Post
                                      op ed in        , on which a reader
                                      commented that she seemed like an idiot
                                       just out of j school.

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          Erin atri               ' onnor, Ari ona tate University

                                                 IDE

                                                         I am a visual journalist and outdoor
                                                         enthusiast who has spent the last six years
                                                         roaming North America and Mexico with a
                                                         camera filing stories about everything from
                                                         corrupt housing projects in Mexico and
                                                         inner city violence, to America's love affair
                                                         with guns and drugs.

                                                         This past fall, I produced and directed the
                                                         Cronkite News documentary, Hooked
                                                         Tracking Heroin's Hold on Ari ona, which
                                                         was simultaneously broadcast on every
                                                         television news station throughout Ari ona
                                                         in       . The documentary spotlighted the
                                                         resurgence of heroin use amongst
                                                         Ari ona's youth and the issues faced by law
                                                         enforcement.

                                                             ver the summer of      , I was a fellow for
                                                           the Carnegie night News investigative
reporting initiative. I reported on community organi ers in Camden, New Jersey who were trying
to rebuild their city after years of blight and decay. I also traveled up the backbone of the ockies
along the I     corridor in Colorado, documenting the state's political division over gun rights. I
love cameras, trees and Bruce Springsteen music. I want to work for a news agency that values
visual storytelling and content.

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               ilborn         obles,        , o isiana tate University

                                MET       AND M        NING MI

                                                      Wilborn is a New rleans native who
                                                      doesn't discriminate against any kind of
                                                      foods, at least not yet. His interests in
                                                      journalism range from covering crime and
                                                      business to science, health and live events.
                                                      Wilborn works to improve and pitch the
                                                      cop watchdog app designed with his friend,
                                                      Elbis Bolton. When he's not binge watching
                                                      T shows and movies, he likes to steak out
                                                      public areas with shade to read my kindle
                                                      books and check out my surroundings. In
                                                      addition to winning a Social Media News
                                                      Challenge grant, he won a          Scripps
                                                      Howard oundation Internship Grant and is
                                                      a member of the          Chips uinn
                                                      Scholars Program. He is the
                                                      president of the Association of Black
                                                      Communicators and the inaugural editor
                                                      in chief of LSU Student Media's digital staff.
He hope his journalism will contribute to conversations that need to be addressed in America.

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               T ad Moore, University of o t                           arolina

                                          BUSINESS

                                                     I m excited to cover business again after an
                                                     eight month stint reporting on South
                                                     Carolina s Legislature and politics for The
                                                     Post and Courier of Charleston, S.C.

                                                     I last wrote about business as an intern at
                                                     The Denver Post, where the city s rapid
                                                     growth, issues in rural Colorado and, of
                                                     course, marijuana made for an interesting
                                                     business page with a set of uestions far
                                                     different from what I d found in my
                                                     hometown, Columbia, S.C.

                                                     I ve also edited the University of South
                                                     Carolina s student newspaper, The Daily
                                                     Gamecock, covered the university s
                                                     administration and interned on the metro
                                                     desks of The irginian Pilot and The Post
                                                     and Courier.

 n any beat, I m interested in the intersection of macro trends, policy and people and hope to
explore it this summer.

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                       roo s Mers on,                     e University

                                           G APHICS

                                                        After my freshman year of college, I worked
                                                        at ersal as one of their first engineering
                                                        interns. At the time, the company was
                                                        preparing to launch a beta version of its
                                                        highly interactive technology platform. It
                                                        was a lean startup so lean, in fact, that
                                                        despite the abundant amenities and
                                                        snacks, the other intern and I were
                                                        responsible for forging our own paths,
                                                        contributing to the platform as best we
                                                        could. I worked as an in house developer,
                                                        banging on the API, creating online courses,
                                                        building interactive gadgets , and thinking
                                                        hard about the future of online education
                                                        as well as my own education. Near the end
                                                        of the summer, one of my coworkers (a
                                                        Thiel ellow) urged me to learn about a new
                                                        JavaScript visuali ation library developed by
                                                        Mike Bostock. My introduction to D .js
(Data Driven Documents) pi ued my interest in information design and helped guide my efforts
to combine writing, problem solving, and design into my coursework and personal projects.
During the fall of      , I had a blast incorporating D into a project to teach computational
topology concepts using interactive browser based tools—textbooks laden with symbolic
manipulation are impenetrable, after all The project gave me a tremendous sense of satisfaction
at having wrestled with a host of computational problems, graphic design considerations, as well
as the challenges that accompany attempts to convey complex ideas and processes through
writing. This project not only helped give me the opportunity to pursue an internship at the
Washington Post, but also led to my current hunger to become better at both teaching myself
and teaching others in a very multidisciplinary way. When I m not evangeli ing D , I train on my
bike and race with the Duke cycling team. acing bikes is one of the hardest things I ve ever done
I think it has toughened me up, so I keep doing it. The atmeal, CD, and n maga ine are my
favorite sources of funnies. Most importantly, the shows Louie and House M.D. mean A L T to
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          ordan Melendre ,         ew or University

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                                     I grew up in Upland, California. I have one
                                     twin brother who was born        months
                                     before me, and we are mildly telepathic. I'm
                                     a pretty big sports fan, but the Los Angeles
                                       ings are my favorite team (And no, I do not
                                     want to talk about this season.) I haven't
                                     cured a disease, but when my brother
                                     does, I'll be sure to write about it. I spent
                                     most of my past four years at N U's
                                     student newspaper, The Washington
                                     S uare News. I've interned for CNN, NBC,
                                     New ork Daily News and The New ork
                                     Times. In the future I would like to produce
                                     for broadcast, edit for print, report a little
                                     bit on politics and international stories, and
                                     photograph a little as well.

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                  a ren oft s, Ari ona tate University

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                                                        Hello This May, I graduated with my
                                                        master s degree from the Walter Cronkite
                                                        School of Journalism at ASU, where I ve had
                                                        some pretty incredible experiences.
                                                        Through the Southwest Borderlands
                                                        Initiative, I documented maternal health in
                                                        Chiapas, Mexico, where I witnessed a
                                                        Mayan midwife correctly guess the sex of
                                                        my guide s unborn baby by simply pressing
                                                        her hands on the woman s belly. Last
                                                        summer I investigated the national gun
                                                        debate as a fellow with the Carnegie night
                                                        News project. Among the most
                                                        memorable moments were when I shot
                                                        pistols with a former lympian and current
                                                        N A spokeswoman in Miami and visited
                                                        Nucla, Colorado, where every head of
                                                        household is re uired to own a gun. Before
                                                        going to grad school, I worked as a writer
for a variety of outlets including travel maga ines and radio news, and spent several months
backpacking solo through Central America. When I m not working, I like to indulge in a good fish
taco and cat videos.

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Ma li        imba     iya, eor e       as in ton University

                         DIGITAL DESIGN

                                     I was born in Massachusetts as a first
                                     generation Indian American. ne day I
                                     hope to travel the world and bring access
                                     to technology to people who don t yet have
                                     access to services like the Internet and
                                     mobile phones. I love to cook, program,
                                     browse the web, play s uash and travel. I
                                     built my own desktop speakers in the fifth
                                     grade, traveled to Prague to work at a think
                                     tank for a summer and did a road trip of
                                     north India. I m an avid movie watcher and
                                     am always searching for the best and
                                     cheapest way to make things better and
                                     more efficient with the use of technology.

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                      Eli abet           o , rown University

                                            MET

                                                      I caught the journalism bug as a high
                                                      school junior, where our student
                                                      newspaper was a safe haven for all the
                                                      misfits in a magnet school known for nerds.
                                                      After getting my first story back bleeding
                                                      with red ink edits, I fell in love. I spent the
                                                      next two years writing, editing and hunting
                                                      for typos in page proofs after school until
                                                      the janitors begged me to go home as they
                                                      closed classrooms for the night.

                                                      This May, I'm graduating from Brown
                                                      University with a degree in the history of
                                                      science, though my real education
                                                      happened during a three year stint at the
                                                      daily student newspaper. At the Brown
                                                      Daily Herald, I wrote and edited features
                                                      and breaking news stories, and covered a
                                                      missing student case that consumed
Twitter and eddit after the Boston Marathon.

In     , I reported on criminal justice, the environment and Texas politics for The Texas Tribune,
chasing after state legislators and canoeing on the longest river in Texas.

Last summer, I interned for the Investigative eporting Workshop at American University, worked
for reporters at the Workshop and the Post, and crashed weekend shifts on the Post's Metro
desk.

I've worn out more flats than I can count and learned (the hard way) that you should always bring
sunscreen when reporting outside at high noon.

When I'm not collecting blisters and sunburns, you can find me getting into arguments about
ecologies of knowledge or cursing the broken escalators in the Dupont Circle Metro station. This
summer, I'm looking forward to working in a newsroom that's open at all hours of the night,
finding more great stories in DC and learning how to tell them well.
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                   Eli abet           art, yra           se University

                                            DESIGN

                                                      This summer I will be interning in the
                                                      design department working on both
                                                      features and news. I am graduating this
                                                      May from Syracuse, where I spent pretty
                                                      much every waking hour designing at The
                                                      Daily range (with some graphic design
                                                      and art history classes in between.) This
                                                      past fall, I studied in Copenhagen where I
                                                      traveled often, studied Danish design and
                                                      searched for the best pastries in the city.
                                                      Since getting back, a friend and I have been
                                                      art directing a coffee table style book based
                                                      on our travels. I am hoping for an
                                                      opportunity to go back to Europe soon to
                                                      keep exploring. Also during my time at SU, I
                                                      spent a summer in San rancisco interning
                                                      in WI ED maga ine's design department.
                                                       or two summers, I was home in Stamford,
                                                      Connecticut commuting to New ork to
intern at Mucca design, a branding agency, as well as Conde Nast, designing for print maga ines
and tablets. ther than designing, I tend to spend obsessive amounts of time editing photos for
Instagram and creating monthly Spotify playlists.

I cannot wait to get started at The Post this summer and meet everyone.

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           rittany reeson,                 estern ent                y University

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                                                      Born in Houston, Texas, I spent the majority
                                                      of my childhood between the great heights
                                                      of the Appalachian Mountains in North
                                                      Carolina and the rolling hills of Western
                                                        entucky. Growing up in the South taught
                                                      me to find the uirks and little instances of
                                                      beauty in the world around me. It also
                                                      made me a pretty good hostess who will
                                                      continuously insist you eat more. Today, I
                                                      find nothing greater than watching a
                                                      perfect stranger open up and I hold the
                                                      view that visual storytelling, even in a
                                                      changing industry, can still move people.

                                                         I am seeking my BA in both Sociology and
                                                         Photojournalism from Western entucky
                                                         University. In the all of    I was an
                                                         International Photojournalism student at
                                                         The Danish School of Media and Journalism
in Aarhus, Denmark. There I found an appreciation for black clothing and I haven't turned back. I
have interned for The regonian, The oanoke Times, and The lint Journal. I recently picked up
knitting because I noticed that my workaholic tendencies were keeping me from having other
hobbies. I'm really bad at it. The uickest way to my heart is through coffee, rap and     B or Thai
food. But really, if you're a fan of J.Cole, endrick Lamar or Lupe iasco please come see me.

I hope to make some great images, dive into the community, and learn as much as I can from the
staff at The Washington Post.
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                     ill reenber , University of Mi                            i an

                                 MET        AND M        NING MI

                                                          Growing up on the North Side of Chicago,
                                                          my goal in life was solidified at an early age
                                                          I wanted to play for the Chicago Cubs. But,
                                                          after     seasons of decent pitching and
                                                          streaky batting, I reali ed there might be
                                                          other, more realistic options out there.
                                                          Second semester of my freshman year I
                                                          wrote my first news story for The Michigan
                                                          Daily and was immediately infatuated with
                                                          journalism. Since then, I ve worked at two
                                                          other papers, The Lowell Ledger and The
                                                          Chicago eader, and have written a wide
                                                          variety of news stories — and even some
                                                          articles on music and hip hop. I ve covered
                                                          metro news in Ann Arbor, Chicago, and
                                                          Detroit and have loved the beat, though I m
                                                          hoping to explore feature writing more in
                                                          the future as well. I m known for being the
                                                          tall guy with a hat, talking about Chicago a
lot, and having terrible jokes. If you d like to chat about any of these topics, I m always available.

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      T omas TM                 ibbons          eff, eor etown University

                                            NATI NAL

                                                        About me I m a        year old senior in
                                                        college and (still) can t grow facial hair to
                                                        save my life. Before coming to Georgetown
                                                        and the Washington Post Internship
                                                        Program I served four years in the United
                                                        States Marine Corps as an infantryman. I
                                                        deployed twice to Afghanistan and have a
                                                        number of t shirts, arthritic knees and
                                                        staged photos with American flags to prove
                                                        it. My hobbies include backpacking, SCUBA
                                                        diving, shooting and watching the new Star
                                                        Wars trailers. My future goals include
                                                        calling my mom more than once a week,
                                                        seeing the world, writing about it and
                                                        leaving it a better place for my kids or your
                                                        kids because at this point I don t think that s
                                                        happening anytime soon.

                                                           un act In       on a training operation in
the woods of irginia I found out from a friend of mine that he had gone to high school with
Taylor Swift. Not only did he go to school with her, but he also had her phone number. I called.
She didn t pick up. I left a voicemail. The wedding is this summer. Just kidding, she never called
back.

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          obert ebel off, Mar             ette University

                   NATI NAL DES    HEALTH     SCIENCE

                                       I'm a reporter who's happy to write about
                                       anything put in front of him — and so far
                                       my work has run the gamut. I spent eight
                                       months writing about classical music for
                                       Third Coast Daily, education policy for the
                                       Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and business
                                       for both the Journal Sentinel and the
                                       Milwaukee Business Journal. I have a
                                       passion for turning lots of confusing
                                       numbers in words, which I hope to turn
                                       into a lifelong career. I'm a new graduate
                                       from Mar uette University, with a degree in
                                       journalism and economic public policy. I'm
                                       excited to take part in a new era of
                                       journalism, making a living by telling stories
                                       that matter.

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                   a ob eldman,           arvard

                                SP   TS

                                      Ever since I started a Neighborhood
                                      Newsletter in middle school, I've been
                                      writing about people, and ever since I
                                      embarrassed myself in my Little League All
                                      Star Tryout, I've been writing about sports. I
                                      somehow managed to connect all of my
                                      projects to one of those two subjects while
                                      studying History and Statistics at Harvard.
                                      In between, I've written for The Winston
                                      Salem Journal, The Charlotte bserver, The
                                      Boston Globe, and The Miami Herald. And
                                      I've developed a few other interests along
                                      the way I'm a bit tech obsessed (and if that
                                      emoticon is a candy bar and not a phone,
                                      well I like chocolate too), and I've never met
                                      a game I didn't like to play, whether it's on
                                      cardboard, hardcourt, or anywhere in
                                      between.

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                Aaron          odson, T e University of                       ort
                                arolina at   a el ill

                                              SP      TS

                                                           I was really unsure of what to write for this
                                                            paragraph about you, just like I wasn't
                                                           sure what I wanted to do with my life
                                                           before college. Getting away from home
                                                           seemed to be the first step. I'm a local kid,
                                                           having grown up in Washington D.C. before
                                                           graduating from Georgetown Day High
                                                           School in       . I always thought I'd go to
                                                           Georgetown University, but at the last
                                                           minute I decided to attend the University of
                                                           North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which is a
                                                           four hour drive from my home in Maryland.
                                                           When I got to Chapel Hill, I know I wanted
                                                           to go to a lot of sporting events and
                                                           covering them for our school newspaper
                                                           allowed me to get a better seat than what's
                                                           in the student section. While many of the
                                                           interns have probably written for
                                                           newspapers since high school, I've only
been a journalist for about three full years, so I'm still learning everyday. My dream is to cover an
NCAA men's basketball championship or Game of an NBA inals before becoming a longform
feature writer. Above all, I hope sports journalism leads me to my ultimate goal enough money to
buy my mother a big, new house Pretty much, all you need to know about me is the following I
like sports, writing, a good romantic comedy, golden retrievers and all mama's boys in this
universe were made in my image. I'm proud to be a Tar Heel, and on May ,                 , I became the
godfather of my best friend and college roommate's daughter, aiden. She's the most beautiful
girl in this world. She and my mother, of course
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            Mi e irelli, University of Misso ri

                           C P DES

                                     Mike Cirelli is an aspiring copy editor from
                                       oungstown, hio. He is finishing up his
                                     master s degree in journalism at the
                                     University of Missouri and previously
                                     attended tterbein University in central
                                       hio, majoring in journalism and minoring
                                     in graphic design. Mike has held internships
                                     on the copy desks of The Dallas Morning
                                     News and The Columbus Dispatch, and he s
                                     an American Copy Editors Society
                                     scholarship winner and chapter president.

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                eiyi       awn         ai, aint ose              's University

                                    DESIGN        G APHICS

                                                        n my name card, I list myself as a visual
                                                      communicator, information designer, art
                                                      history digger, incidental photographer,
                                                      code learner, curious mind, travel
                                                      enthusiast, people observer, museum
                                                      hopper, dog lover, physical book reader,
                                                      avid baker, Mandarin speaker, long
                                                      distance walker, and life ponderer. ou can
                                                      tell how hard of a time I have defining
                                                      myself, but I don't necessarily think that's a
                                                      bad thing. ut of all things, what I feel the
                                                      most strongly about is that I am a lucky
                                                      person. I m lucky to have parents who
                                                      support my decisions, even if that means
                                                      leaving them and attending college
                                                      somewhere thousands of miles away from
                                                      home on the other side of the Pacific. I m
                                                      lucky to have best friends with whom I
                                                      shared the most memorable experiences
on Monday production nights in the newsroom of my university s student newspaper, The Hawk.
This experience opened my mind to the prospect of being a designer. Although I did not initially
choose to pursue a formal design education, I m lucky to have had the opportunities to learn
about this field through experiences such as photographing how mural arts bond people
together in Philadelphia, using motion and info graphics to advocate Tuscany's rich cultural
heritage with The lorentine in lorence, and making a book about the current design scene in
China with a British creative agency in Beijing.

A lot of my design experience so far has been closely linked with the journalistic approach and
social impact it makes me see design as a form of storytelling in which designers are also content
creators. This leads to my aspiration of becoming a visual storyteller who communicates
emotions through design. If I could make something that causes people to experience emotions,
whether it is happiness, sadness, nostalgia, or excitement, I would consider that a success. Again,
I feel lucky to have this much figured out. I guess the biggest perk of reali ing how lucky I am is
that I am always trying to do my best not to jinx it. So right now, I am just excited and ready to
dive in and learn from everyone at The Washington Post internship this summer.
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                    a ob o a e, University of Misso ri

                                           BUSINESS

                                                       I'm Jacob Bogage, a native Marylander, and
                                                       senior journalism and history major at the
                                                       University of Missouri. I'm a sports reporter
                                                       at heart who somehow became a feature
                                                       writer, then a metro writer, then a business
                                                       intern at The Washington Post (I m still not
                                                       sure how that happened), the newspaper
                                                       of my dreams. My brother and I would fight
                                                       over the sports page before running out
                                                       the door to school as kids until I graduated
                                                       to the A section.

                                                      I love a good story wherever I can find one,
                                                      whether that's duck hunting at a.m. in
                                                      rural Missouri or exploring horse racing
                                                      stables around Baltimore — any place I can
                                                      ask the uestion How do you do that My
                                                      dream job is writing long form for a
                                                      newspaper or maga ine and eventually
transitioning into column writing when I run out of energy. I ve worked at The Montgomery
Ga ette, Bethesda Maga ine, The Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune and The Columbia Missourian
over the past few years.

In my spare time, I enjoy umpiring youth baseball games, watching West Wing on Netflix, trying to
cook food (which I m not good at doing on deadline) and avoiding videogames at all costs. I'm a
life long Baltimore rioles fan and long suffering Skins fan and I still root for the Terps more than
I can bring myself to cheer on my Missouri Tigers. ollow me on Twitter, if you want,
@jacobbogage.
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                 Ale ander e               er,     artmo t             olle e

                                     P    JECT AINB W

                                                      It's been a year since I first walked through
                                                      the doors of The Washington Post, and I
                                                      can't express how excited I am to be back

                                                      I recently graduated from Dartmouth
                                                      College where I majored in History and
                                                      wrote an Honors Thesis on innovation in
                                                      the American newspaper industry during
                                                      the late       s. After nine long months in
                                                      the library, please don't be alarmed if you
                                                      hear me muttering about the disruptive
                                                      impact of typewriters, newspaper prices in
                                                      Gilded Age New ork City, or the uasi
                                                      insane genius of Joseph Pulit er.

                                                       Professionally I come the Post by way The
                                                       Dartmouth, America s (real) oldest college
                                                       newspaper, two summers at A L The
                                                       Huffington Post, and tech media startups in
                                                       New ork City and San rancisco. n the
personal side I m an avid whitewater kayaker, certified snowboard instructor, and fan of both
outdoor adventures and the Washington Nationals.

As an unapologetic news geek and occasional historian, I m constantly struck by the incredible
opportunities of our uni ue moment in media history. There s no time like now, and no place like
the Post. I'm immensely grateful for the opportunity to work with the team reimagining the future
of news faster and more creatively than anyone else, and cannot wait to connect with friends
both old and new.
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                     ristine Ayala, T e University of Te as

                                              MET

                                                         I am a May graduate of The University of
                                                         Texas at Austin. I have previously interned
                                                         at The Texas Tribune, The Austin American
                                                         Statesman, The Dallas Morning News and
                                                         UT's own Daily Texan. ollowing this
                                                         internship, I will stay in DC for a nine month
                                                         fellowship at The Dallas Morning News DC
                                                         bureau.

                                                         My hope is to make a living as a reporter,
                                                         telling the stories we don't already know.
                                                         My dream is to do that with a balanced life
                                                         outside of the office.

                                                           I'm a big fan of friendly hikes, state parks
                                                           and museums. I can waste countless hours
                                                           watching Bu feed taste tests. I've lived
                                                           gluten free for seven years, by allergy not
                                                           choice, and am always looking for new
                                                           spots for a good meal. I love a good pun,
well, I love the bad ones too. I can't live without sticky notes, keeping my life organi ed through a
clutter of bright colored reminders. I love a good interview, and hope to experience many at The
Post.

I look forward to an ama ing summer working with inspiring reporters.

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