Katie Sanders is an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she plans to major in Urban Studies and minor in Sociology. She graduated from Newton South High School in Newton, Massachusetts in June 2008.

Notable accomplishments:

– Former Editor-in-Chief of The Lion’s Roar, Newton South High

    School’s award-winning, 32-page student-run newspaper

– Summer intern and freelance correspondent for The Newton Tab, the

    weekly, award-winning Gatehouse Media newspaper of Newton,

    Mass.

– Former Managing Editor of Design, Reflections, Newton South High

    School’s art and literary magazine

- Former Anchorwoman for NewTV, the public access station of Newton,

    Mass.

– 2008 National High School Journalist of the Year Runner-Up;

    Massachusetts High School Journalist of the Year, sponsored by the

    Journalism Education Association

– Published in the Alliance for Young Artist and Writer’s The Best Teen

    Writing of 2007

– National Gold Medal Award and two Regional Gold Key Awards,

    Journalism; Regional Gold Key Non-Fiction Portfolio winner, National

    Scholastic Art & Writing Contest, 2007 & 2008

– First Place News Story, National Federation of Press Women’s

    National High School Communications Contest, 2007

– Four National Gold Key Awards, The Quill and Scroll Society

    International High School Writing Contest, News, Feature (X2), In-

    depth Individual, 2006 & 2008

– Nine All-New England Journalism Special Achievement Awards, New

    England Scholastic Press Association, 2006-2008

– City of Newton Human Rights Award, 2007

– Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Circle Award, Personality

    Profile, 2008

– Al Neuharth Free Spirit Scholarship and Conference 2008 winner.

    Sanders was the female representative for the state of Massachusetts

Sanders now copy edits for The Daily Pennsylvanian, UPenn’s Pacemaker-winning student newspaper. She also writes features for the weekly campus magazine, 34th Street. She enjoys traveling, playing sports, working with young kids and reading The New Yorker. In her free time, she volunteers at National Student Partnerships, a student-run service initiative that connects West Philadelphia residents to employment opportunities, housing and public aide. She is particularly interested in social justice and hopes to one day become a freelance features writer.

The Daily Pennsylvanian’s Web site is available here.

Articles written for The Lion’s Roar can be found here.

To see a Web site Sanders’ and a staff of young journalists designed and compiled following a Northwestern University summer program, click here.

Sanders’ blog will be up-and-running shortly.

Want to reach her? Send an email here.

“Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.” – Norman Rice

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