Youth Advisory Committee
Louise Dufresne (chair)
Louise Dufresne is a freshman at Vassar College. A graduate of St. Andrew’s School in Middletown, Del., she edited the school newspaper, “The Cardinal.” She also started a junior high school newspaper in Charlotte, N.C. Louise has had two letters to the editor published in The New York Times, one of which identified her as a member of the News Literacy Project’s student advisory committee.
Daniel Lippman
Daniel Lippman is a sophomore majoring in political science at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. His reputation as an independent fact-checker and copy editor of the Washington press corps has led to profiles in The New Yorker and Politico and interviews on CNN and NPR’s “On the Media.” On Jan. 31, 2010, he was featured as the “Power Player of the Week” on “Fox News Sunday.” He is a graduate of The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn.
Andrew Mangino
Andrew Mangino is a 2009 graduate of Yale University, where he was a Yale Journalism Scholar and the editor in chief of the Yale Daily News. At the News, Andrew led a redesign and rethinking of the paper’s journalism, wrote more than two hundred stories and editorials, and directed the Yale Daily News Summer Journalism Program for Connecticut high school students. Andrew is the co-founder and former publisher of Scoop08.com, now Scoop44.com, which received a $242,000 Knight Foundation grant and is the first national online student-run newspaper focused exclusively on politics. He edited his high school newspaper in West Caldwell, N.J., for three years.
Charlene Ochogo
Charlene Ochogo, a senior at Lincoln High School in Tallahassee, Fla., edits the student newspaper, “Trojan Talk." She is also captain of the state champion Mock Trial team. Her family came to the U.S. from Kenya in 1992.