Katherine Lymn, President
klymn@mndaily.com

Katherine is a Junior majoring in Professional Journalism. She transferred to the U last year, and got the SPJ-UMN chapter started back up. She is interested in journalism because for society to run smoothly and democratically, it’s citizens need to be well-informed.

Katherine has gained valuable experience from being a staff reporter at the Minnesota Daily. She has been working there since Summer 2009. She has also interned at the Southwest and Downtown journals.

Some of Katherine’s favorite things are coffee, crossword puzzles, traveling, and the New York Times.

Danielle Nordine, Vice-President
nordi063@umn.edu

Danielle is a Senior, pursuing a major in journalism with an emphasis on print and a minor in political science. She worked as a staff reporter at the Minnesota Daily, and has also interned at IT PRO, and online business and technology magazine while studying abroad in London, and the Southwest and Downtown Journals in Minneapolis.

After she graduates in Spring 2011, she hopes to find a job in writing or editing. When she’s not writing, she likes to read, watch old movies, spend time with friends and family, go swing dancing and play the  piano.

Tianyue Wu, Outreach and Strategist Officer
wuxxx770@umn.edu

Tianyu’s major is journlaism- mass communication track with the new media minor. She chose this track because mass communication track provides profound theories on sociology, law, psychology, economics, and politics behind superficial phenomehon and new media minor deepens her understanding on how technology reshapes media nowadays. She became interested in journalism because of her love of traveling and talking with different people, and getting to know different stories.

She has been to more than 50 cities in three different countries. She is fully convinced that no one can know or fully understand the world in every perspective. She wants to tell stories to people in different perspectives and break stereotypes in people’s minds. Past internships include Radio America  and with Central China Television, the state TV station in China. She just started an internship with a New York Times journalist now. After graduation, she wants to further her studies related to politics. She wants to work in media and cross-cultural communication.

Jennie Wolfgram, Newsletter Editor
wolf0460@umn.edu

Jennie is a Senior, majoring in Professional Journalism emphasizing in reporting/producing for video news. She is also complimenting her major by taking Video/Producing Communication courses.  Her interest is in producing for television, whether it be for a news show, a talk show, or variety show. She chose television as her medium to focus on because of the impact it has on people, as well as how many people it reaches. She believes television is a powerful tool that can be used to inform, enlighten, and entertain millions of people.

Jennie has interned as a writer for the local newspaper The Bugle, as a video producer/writer for Saint Paul Public Schools District, and at WCCO-TV. This fall she will be interning at Twin Cities Live. Her interests include traveling, reading, dancing, and writing. She is also the creator of a new student group for broadcast/multi-media students called ‘U Broadcasting.’ If anyone in SPJ is interested in video production, they should contact Jennie about the new group.

Jessie Van Berkel, Activities Officer
jvanberkel@mndaily.com

Jessie is a journalism and English major with an Italian studies minor but spends most of her time at the campus newspaper, The Minnesota Daily, where she is the policy editor. This summer she was an intern on the state government and politics team at The Oregonian in Portland, Ore. Before that, she was a student reporter on the Star Tribune’s whistleblower team. She has also written for magazines in Perugia, Italy and in Minneapolis.
 
In her free time, Jessie enjoys camping, road trips, reading, coffee and great stories. After graduating this year, she hopes to travel the world chasing those stories.

Dr. Amy Sanders, SJMC Professor and SPJ Advisor
sandersa@umn.edu

Dr. Amy Kristin Sanders is an award-winning journalist and licensed attorney. Her research focuses on the intersection of law and digital media. Dr. Sanders is currently undertaking a historical examination of the Federal Communications Commission’s regulation of broadcast indecency. In addition, she researches online defamation and media ownership issues.

Dr. Sanders regularly speaks about cyberspace law to journalism and civic groups, and her research has appeared in Communication Law and Policy, the Federal Communication Law Journal and the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Sanders worked as a copy editor and page designer for the Gainesville (Fla.) Sun, a New York Times Co. newspaper.