Join us in honoring our 2019 NJC scholarship winners

We’re celebrating aspiring student journalists in Washington state who have won this year’s Northwest Journalists of Color Scholarships, the AAJA Seattle Founders Scholarship, the NJC-PNW Guild Conference Scholarship and the Northwest Journalists of Color-KIRO 7 Internship. A reception will be held at Hive Media Lab on Wednesday, May 15 at 6 p.m. Please RSVP here.

We’ll hear from keynote speaker and radio journalist Esmy Jimenez, and we’ll also invite each of the scholarship winners to briefly speak about their career ambitions.

Finally, a special thank you to this year’s judges: Lori Matsukawa, Jovelle Tamayo, and Corinne Chin for their help with judging the Journalists of Color reporting scholarship and Founders scholarship; and Danny Gawlowski, Ramon Dompor, Megan Farmer and Corinne Chin for their help judging the Visual Journalism scholarship; and the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild for their help judging and coordinating the NJC-PNW Guild Conference Scholarship.

Here are this year’s winners.

Northwest Journalists of Color reporting scholarships:
Sakke Overlund, Northwestern University
Annika Prom, Mountlake Terrace High School / Northeastern University
Andy Yamashita, University of Washington
Izzy Anderson, Highline College

Northwest Journalists of Color visual journalism scholarship:
Charissa Soriano, University of Washington

AAJA Seattle Founders’ Scholarship:
Andy Bao, UCLA
Iman Mohamed, University of Washington

NJC-PNW Guild Conference Scholarship: 
Chhavi Mehra, Seattle University

We look forward to seeing you at the reception on May 15!