Class of 2007
Current Job: Google News, New York, NY Ted grew up in Coudersport, a two-stoplight town of 3,000 people in north central Pennsylvania. He comes to Stanford's M.A. in Journalism Program from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he worked in public relations and internal communications. Before Temple, Ted wrote for Scholastic Action, a classroom magazine, and he covered Major League Baseball for Pirate Report, the official newspaper of the Pittsburgh Pirates. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in Communication from Waynesburg College in 2002. While in college, Ted wrote about city politics, education, and high school and college sports for the Uniontown Herald Standard, a 31,000-circulation daily. He also served as editor-in-chief of The Yellow Jacket, his college paper, for two years. At Stanford, Ted has written about Stanford athletics, California’s 2006 General Election, development and local government in Menlo Park, and Silicon Valley’s gaming industry. This summer, Ted will intern with STANFORD magazine. Clips: |
Current Job: Chief Copy Editor, Stratfor.com, Austin, Texas Jenna is a journalism graduate student at Stanford University. After graduating in June, she will work as an intern at the San Diego Union-Tribune in the metro section. Jenna spent the past eight years as a business reporter for various publications. Most recently, she covered government and law for the Houston Business Journal, a weekly newspaper in Houston. She has also written about arts, culture and architecture for a variety of publications. She is currently managing editor of CountryWatch, a subscription-based online publication that covers the changing political, economic and social conditions of nearly 200 countries recognized by the U.S. State Department. Jenna earned a Bachelor’s in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998. After graduation, she worked as a technology and law reporter for the Austin Business Journal. |
Current Job: Google News, Mountain View, California Cliff was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. In between high school and college, he spent a post-graduate year studying at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. After graduating from Claremont McKenna College with a BA in Government, he worked as a high school water polo coach before becoming a political consultant with the Tucker Group and the Merrill Strategy Group. Cliff has also worked as an intern with special projects at NBC11, the San Francisco Bay Area affiliate, the associate producer of a documentary on Japanese-American internment during World War II (Dreams to Dust), and a researcher on the documentary An American Witch Hunt. After graduating from Stanford University's Masters Journalism Program Cliff plans on covering campaigns, government politics, and lobbying. |
Current Job: Reporter, New England Patriot Ledger, Quincy, Massachusetts Clara's wanderlust started young when she left Fairfield, CA for her senior year of high school in France. She went on to Brown University, planning to become a wildlife ecologist, or a doctor, until she was distracted by a semester abroad in the Brazilian Amazon. After graduating in Development Studies, she worked with a rural planning team linked to the Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement - a social movement of landless peasants - in the southern Amazon basin. Moving from Brazil to London, she completed a master's degree in Environment and Development at the London School of Economics and decided to make a career switch to journalism. With an internship at San Francisco's NPR station, KQED, under her belt, she moved to Caracas, Venezuela to start freelancing. As a freelance foreign correspondent, she has contributed to NPR, The Times of London, The Associated Press, and Newsday. |
Current Job: Reporter, Half Moon Bay Review (Environment/Coastal Issues), Half Moon Bay, California David comes to Stanford from Shambhala Publications in Boston, Mass., where he worked in marketing and publicity. Before book publishing, David wrote freelance articles for the Boston Globe, as well as the African American National Biography Project, which was edited at Harvard University's Du Bois Institute. David has served as Assistant Editor of Boston Review, and has completed internships at Transition Magazine and The Kenyon Review. He was also a Research Assistant for the online peer-reviewed journal Postmodern Culture. David earned an M.A. in English from the University of Virginia in 2002, and an A.B. in English (Honors) from Kenyon College in 2001. In June 2007, David will join the Half Moon Bay Review as a staff reporter. He was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. |
Current Job: Reporter, FiLife.com (Dow Jones/IAC), New York, N.Y. Kristen has a background in finance, having worked in investment consulting at Cambridge Associates and in investment banking at Robertson Stephens. However her professional career has not been limited to the financial world, as she has contributed to the newspapers The Vermont Standard and The Windsor Chronicle and also served as the Production Coordinator for a documentary film produced for PBS. This film, Broadway: The American Musical, won the Creative Emmy for Outstanding Non-Fiction Series of 2005. Upon graduating from Stanford, Kristen plans to marry her interests in finance and journalism with a career in business reporting. Kristen graduated from Williams College with a degree in English in 2001. She attended the Breadloaf School of English in the summer of 2002. |
Current Job: Editorial Videographer, CNN, Atlanta, Georgia Belinda, a former resident of Cambridge, Mass., earned a Performance Diploma in classical violin at the Longy School of Music and a B.A. in English at Duke University, where she was Concertmaster of the Duke Symphony Orchestra. She recently completed an internship at Reuters and has also worked for CBS-Boston Channel 4 as the station's first news apprentice. In the future she hopes to write about arts and politics or work in educational broadcasting. |
Ted Boscia
Jenna Colley
Cliff Glickman
Clara Long 
David Smydra
Kristen Sullivan
Belinda Yu