2005 Interns

		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.
		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.
		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.
		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.
		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.
		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.
		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.
		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.
		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.
		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.
		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.
		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.
		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.
		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.