Our 2019-2020 student intern teams include 12 Marquette graduate and undergraduate students, paired with their respective fellows below:
James Causey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Sebastian Becerra, second-year graduate student
Abby Ng, senior
Donna Sarkar, senior
Katelyn Ferral, The Capital Times
Sophie Bolich, senior
Sydney Czyzon, senior
Natallie St. Onge, junior
Payton Guion, NJ Advance Media
Zoe Comerford, junior
Grace Connatser, senior
Jenny Whidden, senior
Larry Parnass, The Berkshire Eagle
Matthew Martinez, senior
Chris Reisner, senior
Caroline White, junior
The O’Brien Fellowship is committed to providing experienced journalists with the tools to pursue ambitious long-term projects in service of the public interest. In this vein, each fellow is paired with a hand-selected team of student interns who provide quality reporting and production support over the course of the project.
Our interns aren’t assigned busy work. They’re treated as entry-level reporters whose work and skills have a real impact on our fellows’ success. Many students even gain byline credit or go on to work in the fellow’s home newsroom in a university-sponsored summer internship. In this way, we strive to not only empower experienced journalists to do great work now, but also to train up-and-coming reporters to do great work in the future.