{"id":8225,"date":"2018-04-24T17:31:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T21:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncorv.com\/aaja_wp\/?p=8225"},"modified":"2021-01-05T18:31:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T23:31:36","slug":"meet-the-voices-class-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncorv.com\/aaja_wp\/2018\/04\/24\/meet-the-voices-class-of-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Voices Class of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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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.<\/p>

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.<\/p>

AAJA is excited to welcome the following participants to Voices 2018:<\/strong><\/p>

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Tsering Bista – New York University<\/strong><\/p>

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Elaine Chen – University of Chicago<\/strong><\/p>

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Irena Fischer-Hwang – Stanford University<\/strong><\/p>

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Michelle Hanks – Western Kentucky University<\/strong><\/p>

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Cassandra Hsiao – Yale University<\/strong><\/p>

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Suhauna\u00a0Hussain – University of California, Berkeley<\/strong><\/p>

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Cecilia\u00a0Lei –\u00a0University of California, Berkeley<\/strong><\/p>

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Amber Ly – San Francisco State University<\/strong><\/p>

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Annie Ma – Dartmouth College<\/strong><\/p>

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Jonathan Ng – Suffolk University<\/strong><\/p>

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Emma Stiefel – Minerva Schools at KGI<\/strong><\/p>

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Lina Takahashi – University of Colorado Boulder<\/strong><\/p>

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Claire Tran – Boston University<\/strong><\/p>

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Violet Wang – University of Wisconsin – Madison<\/strong><\/p>

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Salgu Wissmath – Ohio University<\/strong><\/p>

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Gwendolyn Wu – University\u00a0of California, Santa Barbara<\/strong><\/p>

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AAJA is excited to announce its Voices Class of 2018. Voices, a leadership and mentoring program that aims to increase diversity in journalism, is celebrating its 28th anniversary at the annual AAJA National Convention in Houston, August 8-11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,51],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-8225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-pr-statements","tag-voices"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ncorv.com\/aaja_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/slack-imgs-1.com_.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncorv.com\/aaja_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncorv.com\/aaja_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncorv.com\/aaja_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncorv.com\/aaja_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncorv.com\/aaja_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8225"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncorv.com\/aaja_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8256,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncorv.com\/aaja_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions\/8256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncorv.com\/aaja_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncorv.com\/aaja_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncorv.com\/aaja_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncorv.com\/aaja_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}