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I am a current employee of The Daily Californian, I have been working as a student journalist since 2019. You can follow me on social media with the links below.

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Featured Articles

Explore a featured selection of my writing work below. Clips include: The Daily Californian, Mission Local, SF GATE, The Lowell, 

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Cuts to the community

Ethnic Studies teacher Carolina Samayoa stood in Room 219, trying not to cry for the third time that day as she dismissed her class. She hadn’t been anticipating the outpouring of dismay and disbelief from her students when she told them she would not be returning to Lowell next year. The mood was bleak as students packed up for their next class.

Samayoa is one of nearly 30 teachers who will most likely not return to Lowell next school year due to an expected $3.6 million budget cut.

Lowell is
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$2.6 million budget cut could lead to loss of 26 teachers

On Feb. 7, 2022, the teachers’ union, the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF), ratified a one-year contract with SFUSD. The agreement will pause Advanced Placement (AP) funding from the district. Before this, the district has paid schools $600 for every AP test taken by a student to fund AP teachers’ prep periods. These cuts will disproportionately affect Lowell due to a systemic reliance on AP money, which brings in around $2.6 million to Lowell each school year. As a result of this, Lowell
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Lowell’s potential renaming draws continued debate after Board announces extension for submitting new names

“If [the extension for submitting new names] means getting more engagement from the Lowell community, if it means getting the job done better, then I’m all for more time,” said junior Ella Shonk. “But I also feel that at a certain point it’s less about [getting the job] done well and it’s more about not being invested in it.”

As social conflict over racial oppression is brought to the forefront of politics in recent months, cities across America have begun renaming schools, streets, and memorials

About Me 

I am a current employee of The Daily Californian, I have been working as a student journalist since 2019.

Since I was young, I have enjoyed telling people's stories. I have always been an avid reader and writer. In my freshman year of high school, I joined my school's newspaper. I instantly fell in love with the style, pace, and general atmosphere of news and reporting.

In my first year of journalism in high school I began as staff reporter covering hard news, sports, and some school culture pieces. In my sophomore year, I started as an Online team leader, organizing part of our publication's Instagram account and held this position throughout my junior year as I began as an assistant editor. In my junior year, I had the opportunity to help design the May issue of our magazine while contributing to four of our five magazine issues that year.

Outside of The Lowell, I participated in two journalism programs. The first, The Stanford Daily Summer Program, was a two month program for high school students to learn journalism and resulted in my work being published on The Daily's website. The second group was the Youth Advisory Board for KQED. This group allowed me to work with people in broadcast journalism and try out audio stories. My audio work was published as an example for the Election 2020 event they held. I spoke at Night of Ideas in San Francisco, a new event put on by groups in the city.