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DATE/TIME: Saturday, June 10, 2023, from 10:00 AM–2:15 PM PST | 1:00 PM–5:15 PM EST AGENDA(Times are set for EST) |
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1:00 PM |
Welcome Leslie-Anne Frank, Director of Next Gen. Initiatives, NAHJ |
| 1:05 PM – 2:20 PM |
Making a Good Impression with Recruiters Erin Ailworth, Editor, Newsroom Talent, The Wall Street Journal Aisha Al-Muslim, Senior Editor, Newsroom Internships, The Wall Street Journal Kevin Olivas, News Recruitment Manager, Sinclair Broadcast Group |
| 2:30 PM – 3:45 PM |
Resumes that Bring Results |
| 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM |
How to Stand Out at the Convention María Ramos Pacheco, Reporter, Dallas Morning News Isabel Sanchez, MMJ, Telemundo 62 & NBC10 Philadelphia Christian Galeno, Multimedia journalist, Spectrum News 1 |
SPEAKERS' BIOS
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Erin Ailworth Erin Ailworth is the editor of newsroom talent responsible for recruiting for The Wall Street Journal's U.S News, World, Washington, Speed & Trending and Enterprise teams. Prior to joining the Talent Team, Erin was a reporter for U.S. News, where she wrote a broad array of stories, including covering hurricanes, wildfires and other disasters and traumas nationwide. She was part of the team named Pulitzer finalists for the Journal's coverage of PG&E and the wildfires in California. Erin also helped chronicle the spread of Covid-19 via cruise ships at the start of the pandemic. She then helped lead the Journal’s coverage of George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis, and the protests and violence that followed. Erin joined the Journal in 2014 as an energy reporter in the Houston bureau. She is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School and a lifetime member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, where she served four years on the national board. Prior to the Journal, she worked at the Boston Globe, the Orlando Sentinel and the Los Angeles Times. She is an alum of METPRO and the Medill Cherubs program. |
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Aisha Al-Muslim Aisha Al-Muslim is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the senior editor for newsroom internships at The Wall Street Journal. Previously, she was a bankruptcy reporter and a breaking news business reporter at WSJ. Before joining the Journal in 2017, Aisha was a business reporter and town reporter at Newsday. She previously served as editor of the Spanish-language community newspaper, El Correo de Queens, and was a reporter for its sister newspaper, the Queens Courier. She is a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist for stories at the Journal about the enduring effects of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and the destruction of an area widely known as Black Wall Street. And she was a 2014 Pulitzer Prize finalist for a series on police misconduct.She holds a master's degree in journalism with a concentration in urban studies from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York (CUNY). |
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Kevin Olivas Kevin Olivas is a News Recruitment Manager at Sinclair Broadcast Group. Based in Baltimore. In this role, he recruits for on-air, production and intern positions for Sinclair Broadcast Group’s TV and digital news operations nationwide. Prior to joining Sinclair in 2015, Kevin spent 13 years at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), first as Educational Programs Manager, then as Parity Project Director and lastly, as Recruitment and Guidance Manager. Before joining NAHJ, Kevin was CCNMA’s Career Development Manager. He was previously a reporter for KFWB News Radio in Los Angeles and KSDO News Talk Radio in San Diego. |
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Joanna Hernandez Joanna Hernandez is the Director of Inclusion & Diversity and a journalism lecturer at the University of Florida’s College of Journalism & Communications, dedicated to guiding improvements in inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility. Hernandez comes to UF from CUNY Graduate School of Journalism where she was the founding director of the school’s diversity initiatives. In that role, she created a program to prepare students of color for digital-journalism work environments; planned curriculum to strengthen students’ researching, pitching, writing, visual, audio skills; produced content for diversity/inclusion workshops; and managed relationships with employers and mentors. Prior to joining CUNY in 2012 as director of career services, Hernandez was a multiplatform editor at The Washington Post. She also had reporting and editing roles at the New York Times Regional Group, Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J, San Francisco Examiner, Newsday, New York Daily News, and the Bridgeport (Conn.) Post. Hernandez also has been an adjunct lecturer at CUNY, Hunter College and New York University. |
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María Ramos Pacheco María Ramos Pacheco is a local government accountability reporter at The Dallas Morning News, focusing on initiatives directly impacting the Latino community in the City of Dallas. Previously she was a reporter in Al Día, writing in Spanish about local issues and immigration policies for the Dallas-Fort Worth area Hispanic community. She graduated from The University of Texas at El Paso, where she was the EIC of Minero Magazine, UTEP's bilingual publication. Before graduating, she was an intern for El Paso Matters. María participated in the 2021 NextGen Project, was part of the ProPublica Emerging Reporters 2020 cohort and was selected for the NAHJ Student Project in 2020. María graduated from Mercer County Community College, where she was EIC of The Voice, the student newspaper. Before coming to the U.S., she interned at a local radio station in Chihuahua, where her love for journalism was born. In her free time, she loves to run and do yoga. |
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Isabel Sanchez Isabel Sanchez is a multi-Emmy award winning journalist. Born and raised in Venezuela, Isabel started her career in journalism in her home country before immigrating to the US to pursue a master degree at Syracuse University. She’s currently a bilingual multimedia journalist for Telemundo 62 and NBC 10 in Philadelphia. |
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Christian Galeno is an Emmy Award-winning multimedia journalist at Spectrum News 1 SoCal.
Born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, the hustle and bustle of the city shaped Christian’s passion for storytelling.
A graduate of CSU Long Beach, Christian is the first in his family to graduate from college, a very proud achievement for his parents who are immigrants from Mexico.
Journalism took Christian to several cities around the nation. His first stop was at KYMA-TV (NBC/CBS) in Yuma, Arizona where he covered the visits of former President Donald Trump, the border, and the pandemic in America’s rural communities.
Christian then served as a bilingual reporter at KGET/Telemundo Valle Central in Bakersfield, California. He won a Pacific Southwest Emmy Award and several national and regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for his reporting, including the high-profile case of missing brothers Orrin and Orson West.
Christian is a longtime member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and proud to be a part of the local Los Angeles chapter.
While not chasing the latest headlines, Christian stays active by hiking, swimming, and running. He has completed the LA Marathon. He also loves to eat his way through all the taco spots that SoCal can offer, follow his taco blog @tacoconnoisseursofLA.
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