Interviewed by: Miya Malouf“I think the point of student journalism ... is a lot of taking an active role in your community and it doesn’t just mean … making change, but you have... to be aware of what is happening around you; you have to be conscientious of other people's thoughts and feelings, and you have to be aware of how you can balance what you as an individual believe and what you as a journalist need to portray. I have become more and more in love with journalism and the ability to tell people’s stories in an informative way, but also in a way that is interesting. I think my favorite part of ... yearbook is probably the permanence of it...and I appreciate how much sentimental value it holds. Highland Park graduates... are always talking about how much their yearbook means to them. It humanizes it in a way, because it’s such a running thread of all these people where they were the same as me at one point, where they were students in the same building. So [what] I really appreciate [about] being in the yearbook is that it creates a gravity to what I make, because it feels like it’s just not for these kids that are in these four years right now, it’s for people who look back fifty years from now, it’s for the grandkids of these people whose yearbooks can be passed down for generations and they are going to look back at the stories that were written about their parents or grandparents. I have grown to appreciate how eternal a lot of these stories seem and how much consistency there is between people no matter what generation they are from or how long ago they went to this school."
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Interviewed by: Christina Healy“My older sister ... [was] always my role model, and she would always be working on yearbook. I thought she was so cool... and I wanted to do something similar to that. When I joined yearbook it was like I finally found a place where I belong and I can do something...and I enjoy it. I think that for me the biggest takeaway for being a journalist ... is to respect every single person for everything that they do and to accept ... that we are all different people. I always thought I would go into fashion journalism … until last year, my junior year. Because I was in yearbook, and it was the first time I had ever written a feature story for the yearbook, it made me so happy to be able to tell the story of someone else and the things that they did and the things that they were passionate about. It changed my life, literally changed my life. And after that I was like: I don’t want to do fashion, I don’t want to write about clothes or trends, I want to write about people. I want to write about what people love and the things that they do and their hardships and all that and I am so passionate about it and I just don’t think that I’ll ever be able to let go of that passion. I love it so much. And people are always telling me that it’s a very competitive field and you know you can’t make so much money and at this point I love it so much and … it makes me so happy especially if I’m telling a perspective that could change someone’s perspective and mind or an old habit or an old way of thinking. You know, it’s all about sharing the stories about other people so you can educate a bigger group, it’s so awesome and it’s really cool I’m going to school next year for journalism.”
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