What I Learned In South Africa

A Personal Essay (Aided by the street artists of Cape Town) By: Anika Kieler August 2023 *Editor’s Note: I recognize that this work is a little long, so for a shorter version I recommend Part 2, Part 5, Part 6, and/ or Part 8. I believe people travel for one of two reasons. They’re eitherContinue reading “What I Learned In South Africa”

“I fuck with me.”

Finding confidence, joy and the courage to speak out after six years in college, Tamiah Coffee bears it all: herself, exactly the way she is. *Editor’s Note: This is a semester-long, photojournalistic documentary project that I completed as part of the Advanced Photojournalism curriculum. “Being a black woman on this campus has sucked for soContinue reading ““I fuck with me.””

He said, She said

Gendered Misrepresentation in the Media and How to fix it *Editor’s notes This was my Solution Project for Diversity in Media, a class where we learned about media representation and bias in coverage of different identities. The Solution Project aimed to have us confront these issues on a larger scale and address how solutions areContinue reading “He said, She said”

Vegetable, Mineral, No More Animal

The Story of the 60 Most- Endangered Animals and the Increasing Range of Threats Against Them *Editor’s Note: This was an assignment for Journalism 309: Data Storytelling. I compiled a 61-row/13-column dataset about the 60-most endangered animals and the threats against them. Using Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Tableau, I was able to transform andContinue reading “Vegetable, Mineral, No More Animal”

Personality Profile

*Editor’s Note- This was an assignment for Journalism 304: Media Writing for Audiences. Our task was to interview someone we didn’t know and put together a complete profile for them. Katelyn Johildebrand. While you may not know her name, you’ve definitely seen her work. Under dazzling lights, in the roar of the crowd, the featureContinue reading “Personality Profile”

Argumentative Analysis- Globalization

*Editor’s Note: To write this piece I utilized skills like text analysis, hedging, and evaluating resource credibility to debate if globalization is a hindrence or benifit to the people of developing countries. I did this while developing a global perspective that aknowledges the controversy around globalization in a contemporary context. This is part of myContinue reading “Argumentative Analysis- Globalization”

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