ABOUT US
The
reporters for the class JR610 at Emerson College set out to measure
change in the Boston neighborhoods, in which, they immersed
themselves
in this spring.
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to know more about them.
Lucy
Sutherland is a graduate student with a focus in print
journalism. She hopes to pursue a career as a business reporter.
She has freelanced for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette,
Entrepreneur Magazine and Women's Business Boston. As an M.B.A
who is working towards her master's degree in Journalism, Lucy
would like to make business and economics reporting more colorful,
accessible and relevant to general readers. When she's not
on the phone or working on her laptop, you can find her immersed
in the Wall Street Journal and drinking cappuccino's in
Harvard Square.
lucysutherland@comcast.net
Tingting
Zhao is currently pursuing a master’s degree
in print and multimedia journalism at Emerson College. She
was born and raised in Beijing, China. She earned her Bachelor’s
degree in Journalism from Beijing Broadcasting Institute
in 2000. After completing her Master, she will stay in Boston
and work for a Chinese language newspaper. But in the long
run, she will go back to her country to be a reporter and
teach
Journalism.
ting_ting_zhao@emerson.edu
Diana
Schoberg graduated from the University of Wisconsin
in 1998 with majors in Zoology and Conservation Biology. After
deciding the life of a scientist was not for her, she moved
to San Diego, where she worked at a women’s shelter and
learned to surf. To her surprise, she missed wearing sweaters,
hats, mittens and long underwear so she made the cross-country
journey to Boston, where she is currently pursuing her master’s
in journalism. In her (nonexistent) free time, Diana enjoys
hiking, camping and traveling.
dlschoberg@yahoo.com
Mike
Barresi is currently in graduate school, again. “As
long as I’m in school, I don’t have to pay back
my $75, 000 in loans,” he sighs. After receiving a B.A.
in Political Science from Merrimack College in 2001, Mike headed
directly to Northeastern University where he received an M.A.
in Political Science, concentrating on American Government
and Politics and Comparative Politics. He is currently working
on his M.A. in Print Journalism at Emerson College where one
can often find him in one of many local bars extolling the
decline of the inverted pyramid. But when the day he has to
grow up comes, and as his parents say, “IT WILL COME,” Mike
hopes to find a job doing what he loves: writing for a newspaper
or magazine.
msbjr6@yahoo.com
Born
in Monterrey, Mexico, Marcela Flores Iga graduated
with honors in 2000 from the Tech of Monterrey with a bachelor
in Spanish Literature. In college she began researching
Feminist and Deconstruction Theories, became attached with Latin
American
authors, realized
she was an existentialist, and became a web junkie. Later, she
worked as the chief writer for a communication agency, where
she wrote daily articles for newspapers inside Mexico and South
America. Before moving to Boston to complete a master degree
in Print & Online Journalism at Emerson College, she worked
for two years as the web editor of the University of Monterrey.
After her graduation in December 2004, she wants to continue
writing and producing for the web and finish her first book.
No title yet.
macelaiga@hotmail.com
Sofia
Celeste graduated from the University of Southern
California with a Bachelor of Arts in English (Creative Writing)
and Italian in 2001. Celeste grew up on Guam, an American territory
in the West Pacific. Most people’s first question, she
says is: “Where in the world IS Guam?”
“I’m neither surprised nor annoyed by this question,” she says
with a grin. “I don’t expect anyone to know that the island, which
is only 30 miles long, lies at the vertex of a 90-degree angle formed by Manila
and the tip of Australia.” Growing up in what she described as “an
idyllic, tropical yet small-town
setting,” nearly 6,000 miles away from the United States mainland, she
explained, is one of the reasons why she is so eager to travel.In 1999, she studied
Art History at Syracuse University in Florence. Prior to
attending Emerson College’s Graduate School of Journalism, she lived in
Milan, Italy, and worked as an intern for W magazine and Women’s Wear Daily.
She later moved to Boston and worked in the sales department of the Harvard Club
of Boston before deciding to pursue a Master’s degree. This summer, she
will be completing her thesis in Rome, while also interning at the Associated
Press and freelancing for US Italia Weekly, for which she writes
regularly about Boston’s North End. After graduation, she hopes to obtain
a permanent position in Europe as a foreign correspondent.
Sofia_Celeste@emerson.edu
Drake
Lucas grew up in the cow pastures of Central
California. She left home at 17 for the University of
Puget Sound and
has since visited 16 countries and lived in four different
states.
She hoped to continue traveling, but poverty drove her
back to school where she can live off of loans. If she
had free
time she would spend it reading old books, memorizing
French poetry and baking chocolate chip cookies. Drake
always
has her camera and notebook with her, but never a watch
or a
cell phone. Her favorite words to hear are, "How
'bout a Jack and coke?"
drakedl@hotmail.com
Will
Albright loves puppies and hates mean things. He
also likes nothing more than enjoying a warm sunny day as
he sits
in the Emerson computer lab and works on a story. Always
sincere and honest, he never employs sarcasm in his writing
or daily
life. Will frequently talks about himself in the third person
and lives his life under the pressure of deadlines. A barfly
to the end, he smiles while sipping Pabst Blue Ribbon and
running his mouth about just anything, even if it is
for arguments
sake. A Michigan alumnus and huge Wolverine football fan,
he can be found in the fall as the only customer in Crossroads
on Saturday mornings yelling at the TV with his favorite
bartender Pat and a Bloody Mary so hot it could strip the
paint off a car. At night,
Will unwinds to a long marathon of CSPAN.
Will_Albright@hotmail.com
Diana
Schoberg graduated from the University of Wisconsin
in 1998 with majors in Zoology and Conservation Biology. After
deciding the life of a scientist was not for her, she moved
to San Diego, where she worked at a women’s shelter and
learned to surf. To her surprise, she missed wearing sweaters,
hats, mittens and long underwear so she made the cross-country
journey to Boston, where she is currently pursuing her master’s
in journalism. In her (nonexistent) free time, Diana enjoys
hiking, camping and traveling.
dlschoberg@yahoo.com
Vivienne
Belmont studied Creative Writing and French
at the University of Colorado at Boulder. As an undergraduate,
she worked as a writing tutor, a contributing writer
for the school newspaper and an editorial intern at a
national consumer magazine and a literary review. She
spent the summer of her junior year in France, where
she studied at a language institute in Annecy. After
graduation, she landed in Boston where she went to work
for a large global corporation and later, a university.
Currently a graduate student at Emerson College, she
looks forward to a life of penury as an ink-stained scribbler.
vivbelmont@hotmail.com
Adrienne
Lamplough is an official Army brat. After moving eight
times in the first 11 years of her life, her family finally settled
in Chelmsford, Mass. After graduating from Westfield State College
in 2003 with a degree in Communications, she wasn't quite ready
for the working world. She is currently avoiding getting a
full-time job and is working towards her M.A. in Print Journalism
at
Emerson College. After graduation she hopes to find a job as
a reporter and begin to pay off her student loans.
alamploughl@hotmail.com
A
writing coach and sometime columnist, Jerry
Lanson teaches journalism
at Emerson College and has been chair of its Department of Journalism
for five years. A political junkie, inveterate traveler, occasional
mountaineer, would-be singer and wanna-be basketball player,
he has taught at seven colleges and universities, worked
at four newspapers
and lived in eight states. Lanson is the co-author of two journalism
textbooks. He is a former acting city editor and deputy city
editor at the San Jose Mercury News and was part of the city
desk staff
there that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for its coverage
of the Loma Prieta Earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area .
He and his wife Kathy live in Lexington, MA, with their younger
daughter, their golden retriever and their two cats.
jerry_lanson@emerson.edu
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