Even though USC Annenberg alumna Hannah Traussnigg lives and works only a two-and-a-half-hour drive away from her hometown in Austria, she’s on the international adventure of a lifetime.
Serving as a public information intern at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Vienna, she works to dismantle negative stereotypes associated with refugees and migrants through social...
Long before she started college, Marie Chantal Marauta had already developed a global perspective. Born in her father’s native Italy, she moved often as her father’s work took them across the world. Marauta attended primary school in the United Arab Emirates and spent the majority of her high school in the Philippines, her mother’s home country.
During high school, Marauta had the...
Gabrielle Chenault got into journalism because she wanted to tell impactful stories about underrepresented communities. She got her first chance to do just that on a big stage a bit earlier than she expected.
After graduating from Hampton University in Virginia, the Queens, New York native spent this past summer as a Facebook Historically Black College or University (HBCU) News fellow...
USC has sent more athletes to the Olympic Games than any other U.S. university, and USC Annenberg is part of that proud tradition. This year, 13 USC Annenberg current students and alumni are among the 66 Trojans competing in Tokyo. Of course, USC Annenberg alumni have another Olympic tradition: reporting on the games as journalists.
Two graduates, Brad Luck and Fernando Hurtado, are...
There’s a lot you can learn about Brianna Seaberg from the video resume she uploaded to TikTok, the social media video sharing app. She is a communication major at USC Annenberg who is also minoring in cinematic arts at USC Cinema ; she has procured a slew of internships;...
Tommy Derken, a USC Annenberg alumnus who graduated in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in communication, spent the past year as a “hotdogger” driving the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile around the country — spreading “miles of smiles.” In this short video, Tommy shares how his experience at USC connecting communication, entertainment and film — working in the media center, shooting video for USC...
When it came time for Quentin Schaffer to attend high school, his parents opted to send him to a boarding school a few hours away from his Connecticut home. A self-admitted scrawny kid, Schaffer was bullied and decided to write a book about the experience. When his tormentors happened to find the pages, they tore them up, warning him to never write about them again. “I was amazed that my story...
As the child of refugees from Vietnam, Vanessa “Vanni” Le held two very important jobs for most of her youth: interpreter and advocate for her parents. “There are people out there who would judge my parents’ intelligence based on the way they speak English,” said Le, who was born in Orange County, California and moved to Tampa, Florida when she was 7. "It was really frustrating to see them...
