Youth Advisory Committee
Louise Dufresne (chair)
Louise Dufresne is a member of the Class of 2013 at Vassar College, where she is majoring in American Studies. As an intern at CNBC during the summers of 2010 and 2011, she independently produced and researched several segments of “Street Signs.” A graduate of St. Andrew’s School in Middletown, Del., she edited the school newspaper, The Cardinal. Louise has had four letters to the editor published in The New York Times.
Lucy Chen
Lucy Chen is a senior at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Md., one of the News Literacy Project’s first partner schools. Since her freshman year she has been actively involved in NLP events, videos and projects, including writing an article about the NLP’s impact on high school participants that was published in the Summer 2010 issue of Nieman Reports, the magazine of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. She also serves as the online editor-in-chief of Whitman’s award-winning newspaper, the Black & White.
Zobia Chunara
Zobia Chunara is a member of the Class of 2012 at Northside College Preparatory High School in Chicago. She is the editor in chief of the school newspaper, The Hoof Beat, and has been on the staff since her freshman year. She won the Scholastic Press Association of Chicago award for Excellent Sports News Story during her sophomore year. She is also a staff writer for The Mash, a weekly high school newspaper and website produced by teenagers in partnership with the Chicago Tribune, and received an award there for the Best Cover Story in 2010.
Daniel Lippman
Daniel Lippman is a member of the class of 2012 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 speechwriter at the Department of Justice. He 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.