I live in Phoenix, but sometimes I don't even feel like I'm in Arizona. Living in such an urban part of the state makes me forget that I even live in the desert. When my digital journalism professor showed us this time lapse of Arizona and Utah (which I urge you to watch) a few…
Photo courtesy: Vintage Chrome Postcards On Friday, my graduate cohort, the Humphrey Fellows and Murrow Fellows took a day trip to Nogales to see the U.S.-Mexico border. When my journalism boot camp professors first announced that our cohort would get to go to Nogales, I was ecstatic. First, as immigration is a large part of…
Greetings from Phoenix, Arizona: one of the biggest cities in the nation and my new home for the next year-and-a-half! When I told my friends back home in Hawaii that I was going to live in Phoenix to pursue my master's at ASU's Cronkite School, the most common reaction I got was: "Phoenix?! Isn't it…
Out of State • Out of Mind 