Author: Allison Dodson

Crishaunna Stokes is a 16 years old from Fayetteville, North Carolina. She attended WJMC Summer of 2022. She is happy to be a part of the YAB for this conference.

Christen McAdoo is from Graham North Carolina. She has been interested in Journalism for about 4 years now and is extremely passionate about this topic. After college, she plans on becoming a News Anchor and working in the Maryland or D.C area. Christen is excited to be on the Youth advisory board to make sure that future youth correspondents have the best time at George Mason like she did.

Charlotte Baumgard is a senior at Schuylkill Valley High School in Leesport, Pennsylvania where she is the Editor-in-Chief of her school newspaper, The Pantherette, and the Editor-in-Chief and Head Layout Editor of her school literary magazine, Epiphany. She participates in theatre both in and out of school and she was recently selected as a finalist for Reading Civic Theatre’s annual performance gala. She absolutely loves writing, listening to music, daydreaming, being around friends, and consuming art. She is so excited to help others experience WJMC!

Casey Mann is a junior at Pea Ridge High School in Pea Ridge, Arkansas. She is a member of the Color Guard and she is the secretary for her school’s chapter of the NHS. Casey attended session 1 of WJMC 2022 and was in the pink group. WJMC made her love for journalism grow exponentially and she is very excited to continue her journey as a member of the YAB.

Breanna Pierre-Toussaint is a junior at Nazareth Regional High School in Brooklyn, New York. She participates in many school activities including the chess club, media arts club, and is a part of the school softball team. She is in the National Honor Society and The National Society of High School Scholars. When she graduates high school, she would like to major in government and economics, and business. Her dream career is to be a corporate lawyer.

Ben Tallant is currently a senior at Tupelo Christian Preparatory School in Tupelo, Mississippi, where he is the “Voice of the Eagles” announcing for the varsity football, baseball, and basketball teams. Aside from this, he is a member of my school’s powerlifting, track, and golf teams where he has won four state championships. Ben hopes to one day become a successful sports broadcaster specifically in the college sports world. He looks forward to helping make WJMC 2023 just as incredible as it was for him in 2022.

Ava Nabavian was a part of the 2022 session of WJMC. She is so ecstatic to be coming back to help everyone with this experience. This conference helped her realize which direction she wanted to go in for Journalism- Natural Sciences. The people and advisors helped Ava come out of her shell and become a better Journalist.

Aurora Nieves is a 2022 Youth Correspondent and a Venezuelan immigrant. She moved to Florida when she was almost 9 years old and has lived in Miami ever since. Aurora is a film production major, but she plans to specialize in editing and storytelling. She is a dual enrollment student at Miami Dade College and plans to graduate with her high school diploma and associate’s degree in June 2023. Aurora loves learning languages. She thinks communication is a vital part of our world and believes that we should learn various ways to express ourselves. As of right now, she has studied 5 different languages: Spanish, English, French, Greek, and Japanese, and she plans to start learning sign language next. Aurora loves listening to music and creating her own music as well, but she thinks the music she listen to the most are soundtracks and original scores. She also loves making people smile and laugh!

Ashanti Noble is a 2022 wjmc alumna who attends McEachern high school. She is a part of her school’s yearbook staff, and after high school, she plans to attend college and major in multimedia journalism. Ashanti’s dream career is to become a sports or political journalist and also be a photographer. She hopes to become a content creater and an editor for corporations such as CNN or Warner.

Annabel Lawrence is a high school junior and a 2022 National Youth Correspondent from Boise, Idaho. She has been a staff writer for her highschool’s paper, the Timberline Paw Print, for two years now, and it has fostered Annabel’s love for telling the stories of her community. In her free time, she enjoy playing volleyball for her school team, reading, and volunteering at libraries and elementary schools. She is so excited to be a part of the YAB so she can help ensure that students from around the country will have the same transformative experience as she did at WJMC.