Genaya Silver is a senior at Southern Nash High School in Bailey, North Carolina. She is an color guard and filmmaking fanatic, reads in her free time, and is accolated for founding her high school’s first school news broadcast; Southern Nash Documented. She dreams of owning her own production company where she can reemerge the dystopian genre. As a 2025 Washington Journalism and Media Conference (WJMC) alumni, Genaya hopes to ignite the passion of journalism and storytelling amongst the future generation.”