Spring JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention
April 20-22, 2023 • San Francisco Hilton Union Square
Ana Lourdes Cardenas
Associate professor at San Francisco State University
Ana Lourdes Cardenas teaches journalism at San Francisco State University and is behind the creation of the bilingual journalism degree at SF State. She has been a reporter, editor and producer for Mexican and American media and currently is a freelance. Her most recent project is the creation of the podcast “Manos Arriba: Unreported stories of Latinx in the U.S. Carceral System.”
Annika Hom
Inequality and housing reporter at Mission Local, Report for America
Annika Hom reports on inequality, housing and whatever else her boss throws at her. She works for Mission Local, a nonprofit newsroom in San Francisco, and is a Report for America corps member. Hom is a fierce believer of on-the-ground reporting and centering ordinary people in her stories, tenets that helped her work enact change.
Cam Inman
Sports reporter for the Bay Area News Group
Cam Inman specializes in coverage of the National Football League and the San Francisco 49ers. His sportswriting career began 30 years ago in Cupertino and has evolved over various mediums, including television, radio, social media and book writing. He is a board member of the California Scholastic Press Association and a Cal Poly journalism graduate.
Rachele Kanigel
Journalism professor at San Francisco State University
Rachele Kanigel is a professor of journalism at San Francisco State University, where she advises the student newspaper, Golden Gate Xpress. She is the editor of The Diversity Style Guide, a website and book that aim to help journalists and other media professionals write with accuracy and sensitivity about our complex, multicultural world. A former newspaper reporter, she leads summer media study-abroad programs for college students.
Kim Komenich
Associate professor at San Francisco State University
Kim Komenich worked as a staff photographer for the Hearst San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle 27 years. He received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for his Examiner coverage of the fall of the Ferdinand Marcos Regime in 1986. He has also covered the effects of conflict in Iraq, El Salvador, the former Soviet Union and Vietnam. He is currently the head of the photojournalism and documentary photography sequence at San Francisco State University.
Jocelyn Moran
Reporter for CBS Bay Area
Jocelyn Moran is a morning reporter at CBS News Bay Area. She was born and raised in the Bay Area and now covers a variety of issues around it.
Gary Moskowitz
Freelance journalist, journalism educator and musician
Gary Moskowitz is a freelance journalist, journalism educator and musician in San Francisco. He’s written about music, arts and culture for The New York Times, Time Magazine, Mother Jones Magazine, The Economist, San Francisco Weekly, Grammy.com and other publications. He teaches journalism at San Francisco State University and the University of California Berkeley. He plays trumpet in Radio Veloso.
LaMonica Peters
Reporter at KTVU Fox 2 News
LaMonica Peters is reporter for KTVU Fox 2 Bay Area and has been working as a broadcast journalist since 2011. She’s also an adjunct journalism professor.
Timothy Redmond
Editor at 48hills.org
Tim Redmond has been a political and investigative reporter and editor in San Francisco for more than 40 years. He is the founder and editor of 48hills.org, a digital daily newspaper, and an instructor in media studies at the University of San Francisco.
Kate Rooney
Sports reporter and anchor at Nexstar
Kate Rooney is a sports anchor and reporter for KRON4. After years of living in New York City and a stint in L.A., Rooney returned to her hometown, San Francisco, and has since roamed the sidelines or spent time in studio for a variety of outlets, including Pac-12 Network, Comcast Hometown Network and Spectrum Sports Network.
Lakshmi Sarah
Digital producer and reporter at KQED
Lakshmi Sarah is an educator, author and journalist with a focus on innovative storytelling. She has worked with newspapers, radio and magazines from Ahmedabad, India to Los Angeles. She has written and produced for Die Zeit, Global Voices, AJ+, KQED, Fusion Media Group and The New York Times.
Joe Shasky
Radio host for 95.7 the Game
Born and raised in San Francisco, Joe Shasky wakes up the city he loves every day talking about the sports teams he grew up cheering for on 95.7 the Game sport radio station. With an unrivaled passion, Shasky brings his distinctive non journalistic fan first perspective every morning on the No. 1 sports show in the Bay Area.
Alexis Terrazas
Editor-in-chief at El Tecolote
Alexis Terrazas took over as the editor of El Tecolote in June 2014. Born in San Francisco, Terrazas has extensive experience, both as a journalist and as an editor. Terrazas was awarded a Peninsula Press Club Herb Caen grant in 2006 and then began to study journalism at San Francisco State University. While at SF State, he served on the Golden Gate Xpress as sports editor. He was recognized by SPJ NorCal with the Silver Heart Award in 2018.
Garvin Thomas
Video journalist, anchor and host for NBC Bay Area
Garvin Thomas is a 35-year broadcast veteran who produces the Bay Area Proud series for NBC Bay Area. Thomas has been recognized with more than two dozen regional and national awards for his writing, reporting, and photography.
