Kaitlynn Torres

I started about a year ago as a staff writer at Sandspur, and my role in journalism when it comes to brushing has been about 4 to 5 months now, so it's pretty new compared to my writing. I'm currently a sophomore at Rollins College, and I plan to go to law school and do international law afterwards as a career. A part of that, I thought it was really interesting to work on journalism skills and just reading and writing overall. I do personally like to write on my own free time, and I have a book that I'm currently working on now as a manuscript. That kind of pushed me a little forward to try to see what type of writing I can do outside of just creativity-wise. My main job is writing - we get opportunities to pitch in ideas of what we think we might want to write throughout the week, and we do journalism processes like interviews throughout the week. I work a lot with my editors on my team who help me come up with the final process and put those into copy edits. For brushing, it's more editorialized work that I do. Our journal entry comes out about April 14th when the book is going to be released. The process involves picking who's going to be a part of the journal entry, because it is kind of a thing where you have to be accepted, either accepted or denied. We have to pick who would be best fit for this journal entry this year, and also work on marketing and making sure that anything involved with the journal entry would get some traction and have people talking. The most rewarding thing is being able to be a resource to people. Being in journalism teaches you to be a voice for many people, and that kind of spiraled into the same category as why I chose law - to be a voice and kind of an advocate for many people. That, to me, is very close to what I'm doing with my education, what I'm doing with my work, everything in general. It all comes back to that advocacy.