Columbia News Tonight Staff 2011: Jacqueline Quynh, Matthew Kelly, Taryn Hartman, Ignacio Torres, Rose Kim, Diana Nielle, Carlos Mayorga, Alexa West, Monika Vosough, Ashley Killough, Pallavi Reddy, Andrea Park, Roshni Murthy, Solange Mougin, Zohreen Adamjee, Diksha Madhok, Ashley Semler, Dennis Murphy, Caitlyn Palumbo, Raksha Kumar, Natalia Martinez, Kumutha Ramanathan

	ANDREA PARK is from Oradell, N.J. She graduated from Williams College in 2010 with a B.A. in political science and Chinese. In college, she worked as a senior editor at her college newspaper, The Williams Record. She is has interned at ABC News Now and also works as a freelance associate producer there. Her hobbies include cooking, blogging and photography; the three come together on her site www.andreadpark.com.
	ROSE HAE LYENG KIM was born in Seoul, South Korea and grew up in various parts of the world; Libya, Thailand, and England. Rose graduated Seoul National University with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. She has interned for Parsons Brinckerhoff (Hong Kong), Macquarie Bank, Washington Global Fund, and worked at a private equity company before coming to Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Business issues excite Rose. Following graduation in May 2011, she hopes to pursue a career in business journalism.
	ROSHNI MURTHY is from Toronto, Canada. She graduated from Ryerson University with an honors degree in Radio and Television Arts. Prior to coming to Columbia, she worked as a reporter, videographer, and assignment editor at various stations in Ontario, Canada. Roshni worked on news, lifestyle, and entertainment programming. She is also a recipient of the Global Television Network “Broadcaster of the Future” Award.
	DENNIS MURPHY is from Long Island, New York. Before coming to Columbia, Murphy graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010 with a B.A. in Communication. He has interned at Fox News, working both the channel’s newscast Studio B with Shepard Smith and on the web side of things on the Fox Nation website. He was also a reporter for his college newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian. Murphy’s interests include local news and religion reporting.
	CARLOS MAYORGA is originally from San Francisco. He earned a bachelors degree in Mass Communication/News Editorial and Sociology from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He most recently completed a summer internship at CNN in New York City. Carlos previously worked as a crime and breaking news reporter for the Standard-Examiner newspaper in Ogden, Utah. He was also a reporting intern on the justice desk at the Salt Lake Tribune.
	ZOHREEN ADAMJEE is from Los Angeles and received a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from UCLA. Right after college, she decided to pursue a career in the developing prime-time entertainment shows. She worked in the scripted television divisions at Fox Broadcasting and Creative Artists Agency. After spending over two years in entertainment, she discovered that her true passion was in the news side of the media. In 2010, Adamjee began writing for the technology blog at the Los Angeles Times and reviewing the latest innovations in digital media. She also hosted podcasts for the Times’ website. Adamjee is currently pursuing a master’s degree in broadcast journalism at Columbia University and hopes to work in local news station after graduating.
	MATTHEW KELLY was born in New Jersey and was raised in Utica, New York.  He graduated from Utica College, earning a B.S. in journalism studies.  Before beginning his studies at the Journalism School, Matthew was a consultant with the United Nations Children?s Fund.  As cameraman and a video editor, he produced reports of UNICEF?s works around the globe, both for their website and for international distribution.   Five years from now, Matthew sees himself on his next great adventure, always with a video camera in reach, Final Cut Pro on his Macbook, and a half-gallon jar of peanut butter in his suitcase.
	IGNACIO TORRES graduated from University of California, Davis in 2010 with a B.A. both communications and Spanish along with a minor in Latin American and western hemispheric studies. He produced and reported for AggieTV, the university television program. Torres interned as a Sacramento capitol correspondent for La Opinion newspaper where he had the opportunity to report on stories that dealt with California’s Latin community. He is a native Spanish speaker. He is an avid morning show  viewer. Upon graduation he hopes to report on cultural affairs and immigration issues.
	DIANA NEILLE is from Johannesburg, South Africa. She completed her undergraduate degree in journalism at the University of Pretoria in 2008 and a fourth year Honors degree at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2009. Diana has interned at the Thomson Reuters Southern Africa bureau and the Pretoria News, and was the news editor and features reporter for both her campus’ papers. She has produced several short student documentaries and plans to pursue business and multimedia journalism and documentary film.
	CAITLIN PALUMBO is from Buffalo and graduated from Fordham University in 2010 with a B.A. in Communications and a minor in History. During her junior year, she spent the six months abroad in Sevilla, Spain studying Spanish. She has held internships with WFUV Radio Station, CBS 2 News, NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams and ABC World News With Diane Sawyer. Palumbo is interested in political, business, and entertainment reporting.
	JACQUELINE QUYNH grew up in Orange County, California and graduated from Cal State L.A. in 2005 with a degree in Mass Communications. It was there her love for journalism was cemented, after reporting for the college TV news broadcasts. Before joining the Columbia News Tonight team, Jacqueline worked at KFWB News 980 in Los Angeles as an assignment editor for the past five years. As a student Jacqueline has reported on a wide array of issues with special focus on elections, health care, and low income communities for New York in Focus. She enjoys collecting different hobbies and plans to concentrate on health reporting.
	RAKSHA KUMAR is a television journalist from India. She has worked for 2 and a half years in New Delhi Television, India’s premier TV channel and for four years in All India Radio. She graduated in journalism from Delhi University. Travelling is her only religion, and she has travelled quite extensively across India and other parts of the world. She also loves to swim in cold lakes in the country. Music intoxicates her more than any alcohol. The only campaign she supports and advocates is ‘Free Hugs.’
	PALLAVI REDDY is from Athens, Georgia. For the past few years, she’s been city-hopping from Los Angeles to Singapore.  She was a reporter for Daily Bruin Television while a student at UCLA and a production assistant for ESPN Star Sports in Singapore. When she’s not running around New York City, you can find her in her kitchen cooking or at a restaurant spending more than she should. Pallavi’s passions include food and food politics, United States intelligence policies, and Asian politics and political relations.
	ALEXA WEST is originally from South Florida. She graduated from Harvard College in 2010 with a degree in Social Studies (social and economic theory). In the past, she has written for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Harvard Crimson, and worked on-air as a reporter for Harvard Undergraduate Television (HUTV). She was also Executive Vice President of HUTV. She has interned at CBS and NBC affiliate stations and Comcast Entertainment Group.
	KUMUTHA RAMANATHAN comes to Columbia with over five years of journalism experience that spans across North America. Her work has been featured in television, radio, print and on the internet. Most recently, she served as a live news reporter with CTV in Toronto, Canada’s largest media center. Her most notable assignments include covering G8 protests this past summer, major floods in western Canada and the H1N1 outbreak.
	DIKSHA MADHOK was born and raised in New Delhi, India. Before coming to New York, she worked as a journalist for India Today,the largest-selling English news magazine in India. She reported on education and human resource industry. She has also covered areas such as religion, gender & sexuality, economy and immigration. She has five years of work experience. Diksha has a degree in literature from Delhi University. She is fluent in English and Hindi. She is learning German.
	ASHLEY KILLOUGH is from Dallas and graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Most recently, she completed a 10-month stay as a Fulbright fellow in Armenia, where she studied Russian and conducted research on new and social media in the Caucasus. Previously, she worked as a staff writer and columnist for the student newspaper, The Baylor Lariat, and spent two summers in Washington, D.C., reporting for The Chronicle of Higher Education and writing radio editorials for Voice of America. Her freelance work has also been published in a variety of mediums.
	NATALIA MARTINEZ comes from sunny Florida, where she studied Journalism and French Language and Literature. Before coming to Columbia, she worked on print and multimedia projects for English and Spanish-language publications of Cox Newspapers, and interned at MSNBC programs, including Morning Joe, and Hardball with Chris Matthews. Natalia is mostly interested in international affairs, politics and immigration reporting. She finds meaning in doing stories that give a voice to the voiceless and underrepresented, as well as those that highlight issues that need most attention. As a personal project, she plans to capture authentic images and stories of diverse people from around the world. You can follow her on Twitter: @journatweets
	ASHLEY SEMLER grew up in Portland, Oregon and Northern California. She has a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Tufts University. Ashley has interned at the CBS News London bureau, as well as KOIN Local 6 TV in Portland. In Cambridge, Mass., she was a web intern for wbzty.com  and a production assistant at Interlock Media, a nonprofit documentary film company. She has lived in Mexico, Panama, England and Spain, and hopes to continue to travel the world as an international reporter.
	TARYN HARTMAN is from Saline, Mich. and is a graduate of the University of Michigan where she majored in English and communication studies.  She’s worked at USA TODAY, USA WEEKEND Magazine, and most recently for the Detroit Legal News–a niche publication for lawyers–and its lifestyle magazine, Motion. Taryn is an avid college football fan (Go Blue!), is usually laughing and tries to balance her news diet with a healthy portion of trash reality television.  Find her online at tarynha.wordpress.com and on Twitter @tarynha.
	SOLANGE MOUGIN was born in Los Angeles and grew up in New York City. She graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall and Reed College. Her passion for stories flourished with her studies of literature, an internship at Nickelodeon, and a job at National Geographic. After completing her thesis on women travel writers in Africa, Mougin moved to Paris to learn the language and discover with her French roots. During her nine years in France, she worked for Corbis Sygma and various film production companies. In 2010, Mougin moved back to New York to attend Columbia University, intern at Al Jazeera English, and pursue a career in journalism.
	MONIKA VOSOUGH was born in Iran and grew up in Germany, where she worked as a TV reporter for the international broadcaster Deutsche Welle TV. She did reports all across Europe for a cultural magazine program at the broadcaster. Before she went there, she interned at several TV broadcast stations in Germany and the United States. Vosough has covered a wide range of subjects from politics to business and health. She earned a degree in political science in Germany.

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