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Download The Volume 8 • Issue 3 www.threesixtyjournalism.org April 2018 $1 Minnesota Teens Report Stories & Issues That Matter Focus ty on ix . S .. e e r h T ...the Twin Cities’ new mayors St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter III, Page 23 Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Page 24 CHANGEMAKERS 2.0 Inspiring positive change in the Twin Cities and beyond, Page 19 ALSO INSIDE Powerful college essays, Page 15 Innocence Project of Minnesota frees man from behind bars, Page 11 Apply today for ThreeSixty Journalism summer camp, Page 5 Real Students. Real Stories. VOLUME 8 • ISSUE 3 Journalism Special-use photos: Gretchen Carlson • Zelma Brounoff of Dallas Event Photography • Ariel Kendall • Benny Moreno • Kendy Sundvall • Future Productions, LLC • Innocence Project of Minnesota • Pathways to Children • Kim Jong-hyun ThreeSixty Journalism Mail 5057, 2115 Summit Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105 www.threesixtyjournalism.org PHOTO STAFF https://www.facebook.com/threesixtyjournalism ThreeSixty students and staff pose for a photo with KSTP anchor Matt Belanger (front, center) on Feb. 17 at the University of St. Thomas https://twitter.com/threesixtymn TV studio. Belanger joined ThreeSixty’s school-year News Team for the morning to help teach students how to anchor during a live news broadcast. Each student had the opportunity to anchor with Belanger. CONTENTS APRIL X Summer Camp X Hope for children ThreeSixty Engagement Manager Bao Vang 6 Local teenagers take an eye-opening trip to Bao Vang, Chad Caruthers, lays out her top three reasons why you should Colombia through nonprofit Pathways to Engagement Manager Executive Director join ThreeSixty Journalism’s summer camps. Children. Page 12 Page 5 X A ‘mini Target’ Board of Advisors: Brian Bellmont, Bellmont X Run Like Rel How the Roseville Area High School’s food shelf Partners • Mike Burbach, St. Paul Pioneer Press ThreeSixty Journalism alumni Ariel Kendall came to fruition. Page 12 • Nancy Cassutt, Minnesota Public Radio • helps young people in the Twin Cities discover Chris Havens, Best Buy • John Hobot, Wells and follow their dreams. Page 6 X The Dweller Fargo • Dale Kurschner • Dennis McGrath, An original comic illustration by one of our Public Relations • Sara Pelissero, KARE 11 • X A Night for Somalia ThreeSixty reporters. Page 13 Lida Poletz, public relations • Colleen Stoxen, Our ThreeSixty writer describes how a 7 Minneapolis fundraising event came together X Smartphones and distraction Star Tribune • Jack Sullivan, Dorsey & Whitney to support victims of a 2017 bombing in A St. Paul Harding counselor looks for a link LLP • Amanda Theisen, KSTP • Wendy Wyatt, Mogadishu. Page 7 between Internet addiction and academic University of St. Thomas success. Page 14 X Two options, one future Copyright 2018 All Rights Reserved An 18-year-old Twin Cities student and her X College Essays ThreeSixty Magazine will be published three times family weigh their next steps after learning the Students from St. Paul Harding High School during the 2017-18 school year. parents’ Temporary Protected Status will be share their powerful life stories. Page 15 ThreeSixty Magazine is designed by Diana Boger. terminated. Page 8 X Changemakers Email [email protected] with comments, X A new twist on tailgating 10 Profiles of people–including the two new mayors letters and questions about participating in ThreeSixty. Young people dish up healthy food and fun of Minneapolis and St. Paul–who are inspiring ThreeSixty Journalism is a nonprofit program of during a Super Bowl week celebration at Target positive change in the Twin Cities and beyond. the College of Arts and Sciences at the University Center in Minneapolis. Page 8 Page 19 of St. Thomas. Donations from individuals like you provide a significant amount of ThreeSixty’s X Blueprint for success X Mental illness in K-pop operating budget. To contribute, please visit The Young Women’s Initiative launches a new Our ThreeSixty writer details the tragic story of http://threesixtyjournalism.org/donate. plan to ensure bright futures for Minnesota a K-pop star and what can be learned from his women. Page 10 death. Page 28 X Freed from prison X Mental health in Ethiopia The Innocence Project of Minnesota frees a Our ThreeSixty writer poses questions about Minnesota man after 11 years behind bars. Page 11 mental health treatment in her parents’ home country. Page 29 2 threesixtyjournalism.org Contributors in this issue MAGDA ABDI TALIA BRADLEY JOSE GALVAN ZEKRIAH CHAUDHRY ELEZEBET MITIKU BA PO PAY POE Junior, Hiawatha Senior, Minneapolis CASTRO Senior, Minneapolis Junior, St. Paul Harding Senior, Roseville Area Senior, Roseville Area Collegiate High School Washburn High School Senior, Cristo Rey Jesuit South High School High School High School High School High School JOSE POPOCA HEIDI SANCHEZ STEPHANIE KATELYN VUE TONY VUE SHIMIN ZHANG PALMAS AVILA TAPIA-PONCE Senior, North St. Paul Junior, St. Paul Harding Senior, Roseville Area Senior, Cristo Rey Jesuit Junior, Hiawatha Senior, Robbinsdale High School High School High School High School Collegiate High School Armstrong High School 2018 ThreeSixty Scholar: Zekriah Chaudhry “I love ThreeSixty Journalism has successfully completed numer- “Zekriah started with selected ThreeSixty student ous print journalism camps with ThreeSixty the summer before storytelling.” Zekriah Chaudhry as the 2018 ThreeSixty, as well as TV and radio his freshman year in high school,” ThreeSixty Scholar. Chaudhry broadcast camps. said ThreeSixty executive director —Zekriah receives a full-tuition, four- As part of his ThreeSixty experi- Chad Caruthers. “He’s grown into Chaudhry year scholarship to study ence, Chaudhry recently reported a curious, skilled and passionate Communication and Journalism at on activities surrounding Super young journalist. He earned this St. Thomas starting in the 2018 fall Bowl LII in Minneapolis, covered scholarship and the opportunities semester. a Minnesota Timberwolves game that come with it.” “I love storytelling and can’t as part of a partnership with the For Chaudhry, the scholarship wait to develop new tools to help team and Star Tribune, and wrote represents another important step me do that better,” Chaudhry said. a profile on St. Thomas College of toward achieving his goal. “Journalism is a fast-developing Arts and Sciences Dean Dr. Yohuru “I want to be a professional field, and it will be great to have St. Williams. journalist,” Chaudhry said. “I hope Thomas’s COJO professors help In January, Chaudhry took to have nationally recognized work me find my place in it.” home a Minnesota Newspaper and a reputation as an honest and Chaudhry, a senior at Association “Better Newspaper trustworthy journalist.” Minneapolis South High School, Contest” second-place honor in Currently, there are four joined ThreeSixty in summer 2014 the business category for his story ThreeSixty scholars attending and wrapped up his participation on media companies embracing St. Thomas. this spring. During that time, he virtual reality as a storytelling tool. April 2018 3 NOTEWORTHY Skyler Kuczaboski, a freshman at Dartmouth College, also won first About the ThreeSixty place in the Columnist category for her personal recounting of learn- Scholar Award ing about white privilege. Each year, high school seniors who are graduates of ThreeSixty program- Zekriah Chaudhry, a senior at ming compete for the ThreeSixty Scholar award – a full-tuition, four-year Minneapolis South High School, scholarship to study communication and journalism at the University of St. took home a second-place honor in Thomas. Currently, there are four ThreeSixty scholars attending St. Thomas. the Business category for his story on media companies embracing Hoanglong, a freshman at virtual reality as a storytelling tool. St. Thomas, is reporting for Mina Yuan, a freshman at Stanford TommieMedia, the university’s University, also won second student-run news organization, place in Human Interest for her STAFF PHOTO STAFF and living on campus in the “Changemakers” profile on Coralie ThreeSixty Journalism students took home seven awards, including Communication & Journalism two first-place honors, in this year’s Minnesota Newspaper Association Maldonado, a Minnesota high department’s Living Learning College Better Newspaper Contest. school student activist. Community. She studied theol- Zahra Mustafa, a junior at ogy in Rome as part of a January Burnsville High School, earned study abroad program. Earlier this ThreeSixty students third place in the Columnist year, HoangLong joined the Public category for her college essay Relations Student Society of America win 7 MNA awards on rewriting the narrative about Samantha HoangLong and the Murray Hall Association. refugees. Kuczaboski also earned a For a fourth straight year, awards banquet was held Jan. 25 in third-place honor in the Editorial Wong, a sophomore, is a co- ThreeSixty Journalism students Bloomington. category for her op-ed on kneeling facilitator for St. Thomas’ Feminist have taken home seven Minnesota Katelyn Vue, a senior at North for the national anthem. Community and also works on Newspaper Association awards. St. Paul High School, won first Elezebet Mitiku, a junior at St. campus for the Luann Dummer ThreeSixty students earned two place in the Arts & Entertainment Paul Harding, took home a third- Center for Women and for media first-place finishes, two second- category for her story on local place honor in the Feature Photo services. Wong also is involved in place finishes and three third-place high school students who category for a photo she took for Cadenza, a women’s a capella group, finishes in the College Better painted the wall of a Minneapolis her story on Ethiopian runner as well as other creative projects. Newspaper Contest, an annual domestic violence shelter as Feyisa Lilesa’s protest at the 2016 In March, she helped organize the college-level competition. The a symbol of hope and healing. Summer Olympics. March for Lives walkout on campus. Danielle Wong Warren-Yearby, a junior at St. Thomas, is studying TV, film and ThreeSixty shines on Super Bowl stage communications at Bond University in Queensland, Australia, as part of A Super Bowl in Minneapolis a yearlong study abroad program.
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