Our 2019-2020 student intern teams include 12 Marquette graduate and undergraduate students, paired with their respective fellows below:

James Causey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

• Sebastian Becerra, second-year graduate student
• Abby Ng, senior
• Donna Sarkar, senior

Katelyn Ferral, The Capital Times

• Sophie Bolich, senior
• Sydney Czyzon, senior
• Natallie St. Onge, junior

Payton Guion, NJ Advance Media

• Zoe Comerford, junior
• Grace Connatser, senior
• Jenny Whidden, senior

Larry Parnass, The Berkshire Eagle

• Matthew Martinez, senior
• Chris Reisner, senior
• Caroline White, junior

The O’Brien Fellowship is committed to providing experienced journalists with the tools to pursue ambitious long-term projects in service of the public interest. In this vein, each fellow is paired with a hand-selected team of student interns who provide quality reporting and production support over the course of the project.

Our interns aren’t assigned busy work. They’re treated as entry-level reporters whose work and skills have a real impact on our fellows’ success. Many students even gain byline credit or go on to work in the fellow’s home newsroom in a university-sponsored summer internship. In this way, we strive to not only empower experienced journalists to do great work now, but also to train up-and-coming reporters to do great work in the future.