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Sarah Anderson
Image: Sarah AndersonA few weeks ago, Sarah Anderson finally got her own office at The Independent Florida Alligator. She is serving as the summer and fall editor for the nation’s largest student-run daily newspaper and is pursuing degrees in journalism and political science at the University of Florida.

Sarah has worked for The Baton Rouge Advocate and The Baton Rouge Business Report in her hometown and has written and reported for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Associated Press and The St. Petersburg Times. After her graduation in May, she hopes to cover economic development for a news magazine or daily paper. This is her second year working on the NLGJA student project.

Christina Caron
Image: Christina CaronChristina Caron is earning her master’s degree at the University of Missouri-Columbia. As this year’s recipient of the David Kaplan Memorial Fellowship, she will spend fall semester field producing at ABC News in Washington, D.C.

Christina designed a convergence sequence at MU so she could work in both print and broadcast. She has worked at KBIA, Columbia’s NPR affiliate, and the Missourian, Columbia’s morning newspaper. She also analyzes data at the MU-based National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting.

Prior to attending MU Christina spent three years at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute studying quality-of-life among bone marrow transplant patients. She will finish her coursework in December 2004.

Bryan Kills Crow
Bryan Kills Crow is a sophomore at Normandale Community College pursuing a degree in photojournalism/elementary education. For the past few years, Bryan has moved around the Midwest, returning to school this past fall.

Bryan is Lakota Sioux from the Standing Rock Nation in South Dakota. At the beginning of the year, Bryan participated in Lakota culture such as sweat lodges, pipe ceremonies, and upcoming sundances. Bryan feels that being more engaged with his culture makes him feel like he is walking Red Road – meaning good way in Sioux.

Bryan feels that the NLGJA conference is an optimal way to return to his love for writing. With camera in hand, Bryan will be seen around the conference taking photographs to help him build his skills as photojournalist.
Alicia Ebaugh
Image: Alicia EbaughAlicia Ebaugh is a senior at Iowa State University majoring in journalism with an emphasis in print media. She is the news editor at the Iowa State Daily and has previously served as copy editor, page designer, opinion page editor, columnist, assignment news editor, senior general news reporter and staff emotional supporter.

Alicia is president of Iowa State’s newly reinstated chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and was selected to attend SPJ’s 2004 Ted Scripps Leadership Training in Indianapolis in June.

She was selected by the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund as a top intern prospect for 2004 and is still looking for an internship for 2005. This is her first year on the NLGJA student project.

Tyler Hopson
Image: Tyler HopsonTyler Hopson is about to enter the final year of the master of journalism program at the University of British Columbia. He got his start in journalism with the Carillon – part of the Canadian University Press – where he served as arts and entertainment editor, copy editor, and features editor.

This summer he is working as a reporter at the North Shore News in North Vancouver, British Columbia. He is also a regular contributor to Outlooks magazine, Canada’s national publication for gay men. He worked on the NLJGA student video project at the 2004 conference in Los Angeles.

Upon graduating next spring, Tyler hopes to embark upon an adventurous career in journalism, wherever that should take him.

Laurel Lundstrom

Laurel Lundstrom earned her bachelor’s degree in government studies from Cornell University in 2002. Most of her coursework focused on race relations in the United States and abroad. In July 2002 she moved to Washington, D.C. to join Americorps, developing service-learning projects at one of the city’s public high schools.

She plans to finish her master’s degree in public affairs reporting at the University of Maryland in December. Laurel is an intern at the Washington Blade writing for the features section. She hopes to move into the mainstream press and work abroad. After spending six months living in South Africa as an undergraduate, Laurel aspires to go back to that region of the world and cover humanitarian issues relating to education and poverty.

When Laurel is not writing, she enjoys listening to female vocalists, running by the water, and reading about Africa.

Lori Ann Saeki
Image: Lori Ann SaekiLori Ann Saeki is a graduate student at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa participating in her third NLGJA Convention. She’s working on layout for the print project. She attended the 2004 convention in Los Angeles as a print project reporter and worked on the radio project in Philadelphia in 2002.

Lori Ann is coming off a one-year term as editor in chief of the UHM student daily, Ka Leo O Hawai`i. Prior to her tenure as editor, she also served as Ka Leo sports editor for a year and interim visual editor during the spring 2004 semester. She also has worked with KTUH Honolulu, the UHM student-run radio station, for the last five years, including a year as general manager in 2001-2002. She continues to host a folk music show at the station on Thursday afternoons.

Hywel Tuscano
Image: Hywel TuscanoHywel Tuscano is an English major at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. During his four years at the Ubyssey, UBC’s official student newspaper, he has served as coordinating editor and production manager.

He is a freelance feature writer for Xtra!West, Vancouver’s gay and lesbian newspaper and works at Out On Screen, producers of the Vancouver Queer Film + Video Festival. He hopes to remain in publications and/or within the nonprofit arts community.

Hatzel Vela
Image: Hatzel VelaHatzel Vela is a senior at Florida International University in Miami. He currently writes for the morning newscast at WSVN-7, the Fox affiliate in Miami.

Hatzel spent six months as a general assignment reporter at the Jackson Sun in Jackson, Tenn., as a 2004 Chips Quinn Scholar.

In 2002, he participated in the National Association of Hispanic Journalists student print project. In August, he’ll be participating in the UNITY student television project.

In college, he’s been closely involved with the student-run newspaper, The Beacon, serving as editor in chief for two years.

In the future, he hopes to cover politics or international issues for network or cable news. In the meantime, he just wants to graduate college and find a TV reporting job in what he knows will be Podunk, USA.

Professional Staff

Michelle Johnson
Image: Michelle JohnsonMichelle Johnson lectures in the journalism department at Boston University and writes the Personal Technology column for the Boston Globe.

She held a variety of editing positions in her 13-year career at the Globe, including assistant business editor and assistant political editor. In 1995 she joined the team that launched the Globe's regional web site boston.com. She left boston.com in 1996 to freelance and teach.

Johnson has volunteered on student projects for more than 10 years at various conventions including NABJ, NAHJ, ASNE, NLGJA, and UNITY 94 and UNITY 99. She will serve as a coordinator for the UNITY 2004 student online project.

Johnson has worked as chair and co-chair of Boston's 16-year-old High School Journalism Workshop, sponsored by the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, which encourages young people of color to consider newspaper careers.

She holds degrees in journalism from the University of Maryland and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Kate Roberts
image: Kate RobertsKate Roberts is the Ohio broadcast editor for The Associated Press, based in Columbus. Previously, she covered education at the Ann Arbor News and was a general assignment reporter for the Waterbury (Conn.) Republican-American.

This is Kate’s second year as a student project leader, having helped with the print project in Los Angeles in 2004. She recently stepped down after two years as president of the NLGJA Ohio chapter and looks forward to joining the national board of directors this year.

Kate earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northwestern University. She continues to be proud fan of the NU Wildcats and flies the purple flag on all football Saturdays – mainly to spite the Ohio State fans in the neighborhood.

Matthew T. Patton
Image: Matthew T. PattonMatthew T. Patton is editor of ADVANCE for Medical Laboratory Professionals in the Philadelphia suburbs.

His introduction to NLGJA was in 1999 when he served as an intern for the student project. Upon graduation from the University of Kentucky that year, he moved to the Philadelphia area to use his degree in journalism.

This is Matthew’s fourth convention. He is serving as a mentor for page design and layout on the student print/online project.

Bill Canacci
Image: Bill CanacciBill Canacci is the features editor for the Home News Tribune, a daily Gannett newspaper based in East Brunswick, N.J. One of his favorite parts of the job is editing a weekly section written by middle school, high school and college students ages 12 to 19.

In addition, he writes columns, Broadway and off-Broadway reviews and feature stories.

Previously, Bill worked as a writer and features editor at The Medina Gazette, a daily newspaper in Medina, Ohio.

He is a member of the Youth Editorial Alliance, a national organization of editors working with children and teenagers. A member of NLGJA since 1996, this is his ninth convention and his fourth year as Student Project Coordinator.