Stories get published!

Good things are happening!
I got two stories publish this week.
This is the link to the one in New America Media.
This is the link to the one in Richmond Confidential the online publication run by Berkeley Journalism Graduate Students, used the story and today it is in their front page.
Very exciting!
My only regret… I did not take any photos for any of those stories… but now I know better!
Also, I want to share a little podcast of an interview during the reporting for one of those stories (the link will take you to my tumblr account, there you can play it)
Adrienne Chainey, junior at Salesian High School, won second place in the high school division of Richmond Writes! 2011 competition with her poem “What I give to you”.
On March 2, she recited her poem to the mayor of Richmond, Gayle McLaughlin, during the Meet with the Mayor monthly meeting at the M.F. Whittlesey Community Room at the Richmond Public Library.
“I wanted to give a more deep and more personal present to the latter generations,” said Chainey about her poem. “I know a lot of people tend to not have hope in themselves … I wanted to give them hope [to strive for] what they want to achieve.”