ASNE Reporter Staff 2002 poses in Washington, DC Monday April 8, 2002.
(ASNE Reporter Staff/Frank Franklin)

By LISA WOODS
ASNE Reporter

Diversidad. Diversité, Nhieu nuoc.. No matter the translation, "diversity" is always achieved on the staff of the ASNE Reporter. Two things the reporters, editors, photographers and artists have in common are their addiction to news and commitment to put out the paper.

	Grace Aduroja wields interviewing tactics from her participation on the varsity speech team at Wayne State University in Detroit. The Ann Arbor native is a senior journalism major who has worked as an intern for The Ann Arbor News, The Oregonian and Crain's Detroit Business. Aduroja will work as a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund copy desk intern for The Wall Street Journal in June.
	A self-proclaimed Superwoman, Tiffany Mia Black is a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who majors in African-American studies and journalism - visual communications - multimedia. The New Jersey native worked as an online content producer at The Raleigh News & Observer Online and as a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund online intern for The Minneapolis Star Tribune. After graduation, Black will go to Grahamstown, South Africa, to work on a multimedia team for the National Arts Festival. She will begin her term as a Knight Ridder Specialty Development Program Intern for the Philadelphia Inquirer in August.
	Journalism was the medicine Joy Danielle Buchanan chose. The Brooklyn native put aside her pre-med studies at Colgate University and finished with a B.A. in English in 1999. After graduation, Buchanan completed her pre-med course work at Hunter College in the City University of New York. Buchanan is working on her master's in medical journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and won the Park Foundation Fellowship for journalism graduate students. She has written for university student publications such as The Black Ink, The Fountain and The Daily Tar Heel.
	Time is a luxury for Romano Cedillos. He splits his days between the Arizona Air National Guard, his studies at Pima Community College in Tucson and as the single father of two teenagers. Cedillos freelances for Good News Magazine, a Tucson monthly and for El Tigre News. The junior has taken on the position of editor-in-chief and as commentary editor for his college newspaper, The Aztec Press.
	Writing provides the ultimate hike for outdoorswoman Warisa Chulindra. The University of Kansas senior majors in journalism and sociology. The Kansas native was a Chips Quinn Scholar and has reported at The Wichita Eagle, The Topeka Capital-Journal and was a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund copy-editing intern at the Plain Dealer. Chulindra will begin a copy-editing internship for The Dallas Morning News in June.
	Building a story, block by block, provides David Cisneros the thrill that Legos could never quite muster. The University of Southern California senior majors in journalism and Spanish and is a managing editor for The Daily Trojan. He has had internships at The Oregonian, The Daily Breeze in Torrence, Calif., Univision and The San Diego Union-Tribune.
	Architecture for Tara B. Dowd means lending herself as a bridge between Native Americans and mainstream society. The Spokane, Wash., native is a junior at the University of Montana with a double major in journalism and Native American Studies. She was a junior trainer for the Leadership Camps for the N.A.T.I.V.E. Project and English tutor for the Education Opportunity Program. Dowd was an intern at The Spokesman-Review, reported at The Montana Kaimin and worked on the paper of the Native American Journalists Association.
	Frank Franklin II stockpiled chess skills from the age of four. The Howard University graduate received his bachelor's in business management in 1995, and is a graduate student at Ohio University School of Visual Communications. Franklin has worked as an intern for the Seattle bureau of the Associated Press, and worked as a freelance photographer for the record label Seven Heads Inc. in Brooklyn. Coverage of a brush fire in Chelan, Wash., garnered him a spot on MSNBC.com Pictures of the Year, Editor's Choice 2001.
	The business of sports is an arena Antonio Carlos Gilb plans to pursue. The Lone Star State native is a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, with a major in journalism and minor in business. Gilb was a Chips Quinn Scholar and has had internships with The Jackson Sun in Tennessee, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He has freelanced for the Hispanic Link News Service and currently works for U.S. Latino and Latina World War II History Project at the university.
	Growing up in the nation's capital fueled Brian E. Henderson's passion for the arts. The Grambling State University senior majors in mass communication with an emphasis in visual communications, and minors in art media. Henderson works as the graphics editor for The Gramblinite, and was a graphic artist intern for the Internal Revenue Service, People Magazine and the National Association of Black Journalists National Convention Student Project in 2001. He also interned for Teen Summit Talk Show with Black Entertainment Television (BET) and was part of the newly launched Time Magazine Journalism Institute in New York in 2001. Awards include the Kappa Alpha Psi Memorial Scholarship, Louisiana Press Association photo award, Washington, D.C. Student Grant, NABJ Washington Post Scholarship and the New Orleans Press Club Scholarship.
	Making pictures speak louder than words is what Lindsay Miller has wanted since girlhood. The San Francisco State senior is a photographer for The Napa Valley Register, and has worked as an intern at Patuxent Co. in Columbia, Md., and as a freelancer for The San Francisco Independent.
	<Ylan Quy Mui has made just about every Mardi Gras and is proud of it. The New Orleans native is a senior at Loyola University in New Orleans and has worked for the university newspaper, The Maroon. Mui churned out work at internships with The Washington Post and was a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund online intern for the startribune.com. She works at The Times-Picayune and has received the AAJA and Dow Jones Newspaper Fund scholarships.
	Documenting farm life is the niche Diana Strauss has delved into thus far. The Wisconsin native is a sophomore at Cardinal Stritch University in Wisconsin, and majors in photography. Strauss shot photos for a brochure on the proper way to raise dairy cows for Agri-Nutrition Consulting and has worked for the APME Gazette.
	Media knowledge doesn't stop with newspapers for Jessi Todden. The Indianola, Iowa, native proclaims an encyclopedic knowledge of movies and TV. Todden studies journalism and theater at the University of Iowa. She was an intern for The Aberdeen American News, and a reporter at The Iowa City Press-Citizen. Currently, she interns with the marketing department of Hancher Auditorium, the performing arts center in Iowa City.
	While most parents were carpooling their kids to soccer practice, at the age of 15, Blanca Torres' parents were chauffeuring her while she was reporting on stories. The Pasco, Wash., native is a junior at Vanderbilt University. She works at The Vanderbilt Hustler, and The Enlace, Vanderbilt's Hispanic newsletter. Torres has worked as an intern at The Detroit News and The Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.
	Jose Antonio Vargas began waving his journalistic banner as a sophomore in high school with his first internship at The Mountain View Voice, a weekly community paper in the Bay Area of California. Altogether, he has 18 half-brothers and sisters. Vargas is a sophomore at San Francisco State University and majors in political science with an emphasis in black studies. Last summer he wrote as an intern for The Philadelphia Daily News, and this summer he'll hang his hat at The Seattle Times. For the past two years, Vargas has worked as an editorial assistant for The San Francisco Chronicle.
	After switching majors five times, Lisa Woods suited up for labor in the paragraph factory of journalism. The University of North Texas senior has done internships at The Detroit News, The Augusta Chronicle and the Prejudice Institute in Baltimore. She was a Chips Quinn Scholar and worked as a staff writer and commentary editor for her university newspaper, The North Texas Daily.
	Joy L. Woodson subscribes to the each-one-teach-one theory, splitting her loyalties between journalism and community service. The Atlanta native is a senior at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has volunteered for organizations such as the school district on Wind River Reservation, Big Brother/Big Sister, Headstart, the Columbia Public School System in Columbia, Mo., Fun City Saturday Academy for at-risk youth, the United Way and AID Atlanta. She has been accepted into Teach For America. She reported for The Columbia Missourian, served as department editor for Vox magazine, a weekly tabloid in Columbia, Mo., and as a proofreader/copy editor for HAAS Publishing, a division of Primedia. Woodson was a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund copy desk intern for The Oregonian. Woodson will be an NABJ intern for The Akron Beacon-Journal this summer, and an editorial intern for Mother Jones in August.