Author: Allison Dodson

Kat Sharma

Kat Sharma is currently a senior in Chantilly High School. She serves an Executive producer of her school’s student run Broadcast Journalism program, and is the Editor-in-chief of her school’s literary arts magazine. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, spending time with friends and family, and trying new flavors of coffee. In her week as a WJMC correspondent, Kat loved the fast- paced nature of the program, the advice she received from experienced journalists, as well as the friendships she formed with other correspondents. As a member of the YAB, she hopes to give back to the program that gave her the best week of her life!

Sheila Hodges

SHEILA HODGES

Sheila Hodges is currently a junior at St. Johns Country Day School in Orange Park, Florida. She knew she wanted to be a news anchor was after joining the news crew in elementary school because the thrill of reporting news while embracing her personality was incomparable to any other feeling. The 2018 Washington Journalism and Media Conference further nourished and confirmed her love for broadcast journalism. With the support of the WJMC Youth Advisory Board, she strives to set the world on fire with even more life-changing journalists, who want to use their pens and cameras to end global problems.

Alyce Kilby-Woodward

ALYCE KILBY-WOODWARD

Alyce Kilby-Woodward is a national youth correspondent for WJMC ‘18 from Harrisonburg, Virginia. Kilby-Woodward is a junior at Harrisonburg High School and was a sports editor for their yearbook for two years. In school, Kilby-Woodward participates in gymnastics, soccer, student ambassadors club, superintendent advisory committee, as well as Blue Ridge Scholars where she will receive her Associate’s Degree when graduating high school. In college she plans to study photojournalism. In her free time she frequently takes pictures of loved ones and nature. She looks forward to helping make the WJMC 2019 experience memorable and amazing.

Keri Campbell

KERI CAMPBELL

Keri Campbell is a junior at Saint Barnabas High School in Yonkers, New York and is currently a Catechist, teaching at Saint Barnabas Elementary School. She is also apart of the newspaper club and the ‘Saint Barnabas Tribune’ newspaper for the elementary school due to inspiration from the last WJMC conference. She will continue to pursue her passion in journalism and communications in her future and is very excited for what there is to come for this summer’s conference!

Hollie Brackin

HOLLIE BRACKIN

Hollie is currently a senior at Paulding County high school, where she is the president of their Skills Use Chapter, a participant of the speech and debate team, and a member of the senior beta club. For the past nearly 4 years Hollie has also been active in the BSA-run police exploring program where she is a sergeant for her county. She hopes to include journalism, creative writing, and photography in her future, as they have been huge interests of hers for years. Hollie absolutely loved her time at WJMC, and she can only hope that new correspondents can get as much inspiration out of the experience as her peers and she did.

Madison Delaney

MADISON DELANEY

Madison Delaney is a resident of Secaucus, New Jersey. As an avid lover of literature and writing, WJMC was perfect for this 2018 correspondent. Now excited to pursue a future career in journalism, Madison is prepared to help the conference reach impossibly high standards. With her and the other board members’ assistance, WJMC will be the best it can be!

Nicole Vindas

NICOLE VINDAS

Nicole Vindas is a senior at Lincoln School in Costa Rica. She was a correspondent for the first session of the Washington Journalism and Media Conference 2018, where she made life-long friendships and learned a lot more about the field of journalism. Nicole plans to study fashion business management after graduating from high school. Currently, she is head of her school’s fashion show committee, as well as is completing a program on the royal history of fashion with the University of Glasgow. Nicole hopes to make WJMC 2019 as fun as possible, so that other students can have the time of their lives, just like she did!

Ashley Larson

Katelyn Aluise

Katelyn Aluise attends Huntington High School in Huntington, West Virginia, where she is the president of the writer’s club that works with her school’s literary magazine (The HHS Digest). She is an active member of the Huntington High Speech and Debate Forensics team. In her free time, she participates in Huntington High’s marching band and reads quite a lot, as she is an avid believer that reading improves one’s writing, which is especially helpful in organizing works for the school’s magazine and speech-writing. Last year, Katelyn was nominated for a position as a Washington Journalism and Media Conference Youth Correspondent that piqued her existing interest in the liberal arts, as well as journalism. Her goal as a Youth Advisory Member is to ensure the same, if not a better experience for upcoming correspondents.