About the authors

Christina K. Silvestri is a concurrent undergraduate and masters student at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication.

Christina plans to graduate with a Bachelor's degree in Print Journalism, a Master's degree in Journalism and Mass Communication and a minor in Art History through the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts in May 2013. She is also a member of Barrett, the Honors College at ASU.

Christina's interests broadly include writing, travel, art, fashion, and women's and immigration issues. She is currently employed by Arizona Foothills Magazine, reporting for the Downtown Devil and working on her honors thesis.

In every journalistic venue, Christina aims to use her storytelling technique through a unique combination of writing and visual media to deliver quality and accurate news.

Contact Christina at cksilves@gmail.com

 

Heather Yako is currently studying at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication. She expects to graduate from the Cronkite School in May 2012 with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a minor in sociology. She's interned at ABC 15 Consumer news and NBC Universal. Her print stories have been published with ABC 15 Consumer News and featured in NBC Action News.

She's had experience with being a reporter, staff writer and multimedia journalist. As an employee, she believes it is essential to be loyal, hard working and trustworthy. She believes it's good to work as a team because there are better results when co-workers can come to together and gather their ideas to create a solid outcome.

Heather is a professional that is willing to work smart and make a difference. She hopes to become an anchor in the near future as she builds her experience as a reporter.

Contact Heather at heatheryako@gmail.com

 

Uriel J. Garcia is a bilingual reporter, living in Phoenix. Uriel's journalism career started in high school, where he wrote for Maryvale's newspaper.

Now, he has covered various stories including business, features and his favorite-- politics.

Living in Phoenix has been a great journalistic experience, because of the type of news that Arizona produces, particularly in the Arizona State Legislature. Some stories that Uriel has covered and is following are Arizona's immigration law known as SB 1070. Apart from immigration-related stories has covered the guns-on-campus bill, which would have allowed students and faculty to carry their weapons on university campuses.

As of now, Uriel is completing his education in journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and is expected to graduate May 2012.

Contact Uriel at urieljgarcia@gmail.com