Meet the Greene Team
Ianna Banfield
Park Slope Collegiate
Whether she’s creating a fantasy story or editing her school’s newspaper, writing is something that comes naturally to Ianna Banfield, who calls it “the one consistent thing I’m 100 percent sure that I want to do for the rest of my life.”
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Demi Cabness
HCZ Promise Academy 1 Charter High School
Demi Cabness really wants to get into reporting, not only with words but also with cameras and sound equipment. Her mother, Michelle, said that Demi, who has her own YouTube channel, has the right chops as a video and content editor…
Julia Capitelli
North Shore High School
Around the age of eight, Julia Capitelli became fixated on the field of sports journalism. Her parents would always find her watching the NHL or reading an article about a recent hockey game. She would watch or read any source of news she could get her hands on.
Alex Chen
John Dewey High School
Alex Chen, a 15-year-old rising senior at John Dewey High School in Brooklyn with “a passion for writing” who is also interested in video production, found his way to journalism with the encouragement of his ninth-grade English teacher…
Emely Ou Feng
John Dewey High School
Emely Ou Feng wants to use her experiences as an outsider to help others. As a Chinese girl born in the Dominican Republic, Emely knew what it was like to be different. Nothing changed when her parents sent her to China at the age of four to be with her grandmother. Although her first language was Spanish, she had to learn Mandarin…
Chloe Findlay
Long Island Lutheran Middle and High School
Nothing about Chloe Findlay would hint that she once played the part of Pinocchio, but she did in a winter play at her high school. Even her mom couldn’t quite believe it. “It was just a sight to see,” her mother said of the athletic and energetic rising junior. Chloe’s energy is apparent. She says she wants to do everything when it comes to sports or “anything she can get her hands on.”
Noel Gonzalez
Bard High School Early College Queens
Noel Gonzalez, a 16-year-old rising junior at Bard High School Early College Queens, has a tremendous passion for writing. “Literature is my favorite class,” said Noel, a resident of the Bronx. Whenever he has an opportunity to write about a book that his class uses or he reads voluntarily, he will use it as an inspiration for a creative piece…
T’Neil Gooden
Leon M Goldstein High School for the Sciences
T’Neil Gooden is striving to become the first person in her family to pursue a writing-based career in journalism. T’Neil is a 17-year-old rising senior at Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences in Brooklyn….
Sophia Herrera
Our Lady of Mercy Academy
Representation is paramount to Sophia Herrera. The issue is so significant for the rising junior at Our Lady of Mercy Academy in Syosset that she wants to pursue a career in broadcast sports journalism….
Jada Jackson
High School For Community Leadership
Jada Yahda Jackson’s writing adventure started young. The 17-year-old Georgia native, who moved to the Queensbridge Houses development in Queens at age two and is now a rising senior at the High School for Community Leadership in Jamaica, Queens, discovered a gift for writing in elementary school.
Shian James-Harden
Gotham Professional Arts Academy
Prior to the pandemic, journalism wasn’t something Shian James-Harden was considering as a career. It wasn’t even one of her many interests, which include dance, law and entrepreneurship.
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Isabella Lenarduzzi
Kings Park High School
Isabella Lenarduzzi, a Kings Park teen, is using her love for photography to branch into the field of journalism. The rising junior at Kings Park High School hopes to use her new attentiveness to journalism and photography to be a photojournalist…
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Oona Montandon
Millennium Brooklyn High School
Oona Montandon has been interested in journalism since kindergarten, when she wrote a profile on a school security guard and liked the experience. In first grade, she wrote for her school newspaper. And in 2012, Oona wrote a few articles for a youth paper called Firecracker…
Michelle Paszek
Kellenberg Memorial High School
For Michelle Paszek, journalism is just one of her passions, along with STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). At first glance, these two fields seem like quite the odd pair. Yet, Michelle has found a way to intertwine her love of writing and STEM into journalism…
Aarya Patel
Earl L Vandemulen High School
Aarya Patel wants to be a political newshound. It began indirectly with the 17-year-old from Port Jefferson getting interested in YouTubers such as Dig MC and PewDiePie who specialize in gaming videos. They inspired him to want to create his own channel…
Moriah Pettway
Baldwin High School
Moriah Pettway has always harbored a knack for writing. A rising senior at Baldwin High School in Long Island, Moriah’s involvement in the arts and humanities dates back to her elementary school days. She reminisces fondly about English classes spent developing a well-spoken, passionate mindset, before touching upon her…
Daniel Polonia
Baldwin High School
“Disciplined, smart and an overachiever” is how Daniel Polonia’s mother, Milena Carrizo-Polonia, describes him. But those words barely describe Daniel’s aspirations. Danie, of Manhasset, is a rising senior at Baldwin High School. His parents encouraged his education…
Miles Reese
Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School
Miles Reese’s creativity and passion for playing the saxophone and painting also influences his writing. The rising senior at Copiague High School was born in Mineola and raised in Copiague with his younger sister Natalie Reese…
Camila Rojas
Hempstead High School
Camila Rojas sees journalism as a path to a successful law career. A stop on that path is the Robert W. Greene Summer Institute for High School Journalists. “Journalism interests me because it’s a great outlet to learn about current world problems and about all different types of people,” the Hempstead High School rising junior said.
Chadwick Roy
Mathematics, Science Research and Technology Magnet High School
A dribble up the court, a ball flying through the air, fans rising out of their seats, hearts in their throats, SWISH! This is the way Chadwick Roy, a rising senior at Campus Magnet High School in Cambria Heights, Queens, got into journalism…
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Dan Stark
Westhampton Beach High School
“Ain’t no time to hate, barely time to wait.” A quote from Jerry Garcia that Dan Stark lives by. To him, it means that “there’s too much anger in this world. There’s not enough time we have on this planet to be mad at one another.” Dan, described by his friends as an outgoing and comfortable person to be around from East Quogue, has many passions that shaped who he is…
Liliana Stella
North Shore High School
Journalism has been a long-time interest of Liliana Stella. “Journalism allows me to build a platform for myself and share my opinion freely,”
said the 16-year-old Greenvale resident who attends North Shore High School. “I love journalism’s impact on communities. Journalism allows people’s stories to be heard and motivates people to do better, and that’s something I want to be a part of…”
Shayaan Tirmizi
Centereach
How does one find success as a high school journalist without a school paper to write for, a school culture to write about, or even a physical high school? “It’s a little different,” said 15-year-old Shayaan Tirmizi, who has, along with his two brothers, been homeschooled since 2012.
Tyler Wong
Millennium Brooklyn High School
This is how Tyler Wong describes his relationship with his intended profession: “I’m passionate about journalism because it allows me to freely express my point of view.” The 16-year-old Brooklyn native attending Millennium Brooklyn High School is involved in many school activities, including the journalism club, creative learning lab…