Meet the Voices Class of 2018

Voices is celebrating its 28th anniversary in 2018 at the annual AAJA National Convention in Houston, August 8-11. For more than two decades, Voices has had a long track record of placing alumni and mentors in jobs with national and international media, including the Dallas Morning News, National Public Radio, the Wall Street Journal and the Huffington Post.

Voices is a valuable leadership and mentoring program that aims to increase diversity in journalism by providing job-ready candidates for hiring media employers. Through the week-long news operation held at the AAJA convention, Voices provides key learning opportunities for aspiring young journalists through mentorship with media professionals.

AAJA is excited to welcome the following participants to Voices 2018:

Tsering Bista – New York University

Elaine Chen – University of Chicago

Irena Fischer-Hwang – Stanford University

Michelle Hanks – Western Kentucky University

Cassandra Hsiao – Yale University

Suhauna Hussain – University of California, Berkeley

Cecilia Lei – University of California, Berkeley

Amber Ly – San Francisco State University

Annie Ma – Dartmouth College

Jonathan Ng – Suffolk University

Dave Sebastian  – Boston University

Emma Stiefel – Minerva Schools at KGI

Lina Takahashi – University of Colorado Boulder

Claire Tran – Boston University

Violet Wang – University of Wisconsin – Madison

Salgu Wissmath – Ohio University

Gwendolyn Wu – University of California, Santa Barbara