Staff

Student staff

Peter Choi is a senior at Seattle Pacific University studying Journalism. He is from Seoul, South Korea. He is also passionate about current international events like foreign relations with North Korea. He hopes to see himself working as a foreign correspondent for an American-based international broadcasting company that covers national issues, and also expands on world news.

Follow him @peterwchoi_

My name is Noelle Fujii, and I’m a recent graduate from UH Mānoa. I received my Bachelor’s in journalism and a minor in Japanese, and while at UH, I worked as news editor and editor-in-chief of Ka Leo. During this time, I also had internships at Hawaii Business magazine and the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

Kavish is a senior at New York University studying psychology and French. He just finished up an internship with the Innocence Project and is a research assistant for NYU Steinhardt’s Community and Oppression Research and Engagement Team. He has previously interned at MSNBC.com and served on the management team for the Washington Square News. Additional work has been published on MTV News. In the fall, Kavish will be interning at the Today Show. Catch up with him on twitter @Kavish_Harjai.

Charlie Kadado is a senior broadcast journalism major at Wayne State University in Detroit. As the 2016 UNITY fellow, he is traveling and covering the five national conventions for minority journalists. He has interned at the NBC-affiliate in Detroit, and currently works as an MMJ reporter for a community television station in Macomb County, Mich. He aspires to report on Middle East affairs.

Kelly Kasulis is a 2016 VOICES student and a recent journalism school graduate from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. She’s a freelance journalist and the deputy digital editor of The GroundTruth Project, a nonprofit international news organization based in Boston.

Thomas Oide is a sophomore at the University of Missouri, studying data journalism, computer science and statistics. This summer, he was an intern on The Sacramento Bee’s metro staff where he covered crime, Sacramento County Superior Court, health, county government and community issues. He previously worked at The Maneater, MU’s student-run newspaper where he covered the racial protests and campus unrest in fall 2015 and at The Davis Enterprise, where he covered high school sports. Follow him @thomasoide

Shawn is a senior at NYU studying journalism and history. He is currently a video intern at Eater. He has been a production intern PBS NewsHour Weekend and a photo intern with the Chattanooga Times Free Press where he continues to freelance. As a sophomore at NYU, Shawn was the on the management team for the Washington Square News as the multimedia editor. He wants to be a broadcast producer.

Jeong Park is a senior at University of California, Los Angeles, studying political science. He was a managing editor at the campus newspaper Daily Bruin for the 2015-2016 academic year.

Sarah Rahal is a senior at Wayne State University, in Detroit. She is majoring in journalism with a photography concentration and minoring in new media. Sarah is a member of the Journalism Institute for Media Diversity, at WSU and serves as the managing editor of the campus paper, The South End. She has interned at BLAC Detroit Magazine, Metro Parent Magazine, Detroit Metro Times and is currently an editorial intern at Hour Detroit. Follow her @sarahal6611

Clare Ramirez is a senior at Syracuse University studying magazine journalism, graphic design and fine arts. She grew up in the Philippines, and now lives in Los Angeles with her family. She is a member of VOICES 2016 and is also an alum of JCamp 2012.

Jenny Ung is a senior at Arizona State University studying journalism, political science and Asia studies. She is currently an intern at The Arizona Republic’z AZ Fact Check section, where she writes fact check analyses on public officials and politicians. She has previously interned at Politico as a Journalism Institute Fellow, at USA Today Washington and at USA Today College. Follow her on Twitter @jenny__ung.

Vivian Wang is a senior English major at Yale University and an intern on the Boston Globe metro desk, where she has covered topics ranging from a Donald Trump rally to a retiring elementary school principal. She is also an editor at the Yale Daily News and a former intern at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and she has freelanced for The Awl. In her free time, she enjoys napping, eating, and running. Follow her on Twitter @vwang3.

Angie Wang, UCLA, junior

Huizhong Wu, University of Pennsylvania, recent graduate

Gabi Wy is a sophomore journalism and criminal justice double major at the University of Southern Indiana. She is the features editor for The Shield, USI’s weekly print news publication and website. Last year, she served as The Shield’s news editor and as a newscaster for the campus radio station. This fall, she will intern for the Evansville Courier & Press, part of the USA TODAY Network. She aspires to become an investigative reporter focusing on the criminal justice system.

Zara Zhang, Harvard University, junior

Editors and mentors

Adam Kealoha Causey is an editor on The Associated Press West Desk in Phoenix, working with reporters and other editors in 13 states from the Rockies to Hawaii. Prior to joining AP, he was an assistant city editor at the Las Vegas Review-Journal where he oversaw crime and breaking news efforts. He was previously a multimedia reporter at the Review-Journal, The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville and The Times in Shreveport, Louisiana. He has taught journalism at Arizona State University and the University of North Florida. A graduate of Louisiana State University, Adam is a founding direc tor of the Reveille Alumni Association, which raises money for LSU’s student daily. He is co-author of the forthcoming book “100 Things To Do in Las Vegas Before You Die.” Follow him @akcausey.

Conner Jay a producer for social media content at Discovery Digital Networks. His role incorporates online engagement, audience development and digital video production. He specializes in producing innovative and viral content around science, nature, current events and factual content. Conner was formerly a staff photographer and multimedia journalist at the Press Democrat newspaper. Conner’s work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Star-Ledger, and he was named the San Francisco Bay Area Press Photographer’s Association’s Newspaper Photographer of the Year for his work in 2011. Follow him @pathosphoto

Kevin Lee covers the California Supreme Court for the Daily Journal Corporation, a California legal affairs newspaper publisher. He previously covered technology litigation in Silicon Valley, writing stories on $1 billion verdicts and patent trolls. Prior to joining the Daily Journal, Kevin produced and managed content for startup online political news sites in Madison, Wisconsin and Springfield, Illinois. He lives in San Francisco. Follow him @kevinNLee.

Wendy Lee is a tech reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle. Before the Chronicle, Wendy worked at NPR-affiliate 89.3 FM KPCC in Pasadena, Star Tribune in Minneapolis and The Tennessean in Nashville.
She was a student reporter in the 2002 Voices project and is thrilled to be a Voices editor this year! Follow her @thewendylee.

Ruth Liao is director of Voices. She is Americas editor for the global trade publication ICIS, covering the liquefied natural gas (LNG) commodity market. She has written about energy commodity markets since 2011. Ruth covered police and courts, and later social services, as a reporter at the Statesman Journal in Salem, Oregon. She gradu ated from The University of Texas at Austin. Ruth has been a Voices mentor since 2009 and is a former Voices student participant. She is now based in Seattle. Follow her @ruthlessliao.

Phil Marcelo is an enterprise reporter for the Associated Press based in Boston. He’s helped cover the Boston Marathon bomber trial, the murder trials of former NFL star Aaron Hernandez, the civil lawsuits against comedian Bill Cosby and this year’s New Hampshire primary election.
He specializes in coverage of casino gambling, daily fantasy sports, law enforcement, counterterrorism and drug addiction.
Prior to joining the AP, he spent nearly eight years as a political reporter for The Providence Journal in Rhode Island. He holds degrees from Georgetown University and Brown University. Follow him @philmarcelo.

Maya Sugarman is a visual journalist for NPR station KPCC in Los Angeles. She’s worked previously at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Orange County Register. Maya went to UCLA and was a Voices student in Detroit in 2011.

Andrew Ba Tran is data editor at TrendCT.org, a part of The Connecticut Mirror. He works with the newsroom to find, analyze, and tell or visualize stories with data. Prior to that, he was a data producer at The Boston Globe, an online producer at The Virginian-Pilot and a staff writer at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He’s a Metpro Fellow, a Chips Quinn Scholar, and a graduate of the University of Texas. This is his second year running the Voices website and mentoring.

Jessie is currently a product designer at Flatiron Health, a healthcare start-up fighting cancer with organized data. Most recently, she was a UX designer at the Washington Post, where she designed personalized consumer-facing products and publishing tools aimed at addressing the challenges people in the newsroom face. She graduated from UC Berkeley, where she was the Design Editor of The Daily Californian. She likes spreadsheets and really dislikes touch screens. She always has an opinion. Jessie was a Voices alumni in 2010. Follow her @jesst220