ABOUT US
Melanie De Lima
Melanie is a junior at Ithaca College. She is currently majoring in Television-Radio with a concentration in Media Production and a Journalism Minor. She is very interested in the subjects of inequality, race relations and international politics. Which often lead her to dedicate her passion on topics on diversity and it's current issues. Which is why her and the rest of the team decided to investigate low graduation rates and disparities low income students face when trying to achieve a higher education.
mdelima1@ithaca.edu
Angela Pradhan
Angela Pradhan is a sophomore majoring in Journalism and International Politics. She has done extensive research on how trauma and poverty affects communities of color; depression in Asian American women; and gender income inequity. In her free time Angela served as an assistant producer and guest co-anchor for Ithaca College's first sociopolitical news show, The RoundTable and Newswatch.
She is currently a contributing writer for Foreign Policy in Focus, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies. She would like to write about injustices around the world and different issues of human rights violations.
apradhan@ithaca.edu
Lauren Rapaport
Lauren Rapoport is a sophomore at Ithaca College who is majoring in documentary studies and production and minoring in counseling. She aims to direct documentary films that address social injustices and the environmental crisis, and is looking to continue her education in graduate school. Lauren has primarily helped to film, interview, and edit with this project, and feels that the skillset she has honed throughout this experience will better prepare her for future documentary endeavors. Some passions of Lauren include working with animals, engaging in political discussion, trying new and exciting vegan foods, working with children, editing, and gardening.
lrapoport@ithaca.edu
Sandra Aguirre
Sandra is a junior at Ithaca College. She is majoring in journalism with a minor in Spanish.
During her time at Ithaca College, Sandra has particpated on Ithaca College Television as a writer for the show The Director's Chair. Along, with doing ICTV, she is also involved as a radio DJ for VIC an online radion at IC and as writer for VIC's tumblr page.
After graduation she hopes to work in print journalism writing articles about topics of immigration and education equality in English and Spanish.
saguirre@ithaca.edu
Isabella Grullón Paz
Isabella Grullón is a sophomore journalism student at Ithaca College. She is also working towards a double minor is business administration and international politics.
She is interested in media for social change as well as economic and political issues on a global scale
igrullon@ithaca.edu