Alyna K. Almero was a National Youth Correspondent during the WJMC program of 2023. There she learned a variety of different journalism and networking skills that have helped her gain enough confidence that she had not seen in herself before. Although she had attended the program just for the opportunity to go, she had found much more than just journalism experience and even gave her much more confidence and thought about her career and future. As accepted into the WJMC Youth Advisory Board, she hopes to give the very same experience and emotions she herself had felt in her experience to the next youth correspondents of WJMC 2024.