After a year of developing skills in writing, photography, video/audio and reporting for The Seattle Globalist, our youth apprentices are proud to share the following projects with you.

These in-depth pieces were dreamed up, designed and reported by each apprentice on a topic they are passionate about. Now equipped with some serious reporting skills, we know these young storytellers will continue to make incredible works of journalism.

I am Ethiopia: Gabriel Teodros

In Aida Solomon‘s short video documentary featuring Seattle hip-hop artist Gabriel Teodros, she explores what it means to be Ethiopian-American and fuse multiple identities into art.

See the first video in the series here, with more profiles of Ethiopian-Americans in Seattle soon to be released.

Contaminated waterways threaten Puget Sound shellfish

It’s not a massive oil spill or disaster threatening Shellfish in Puget Sound. The root cause is far more insidious where we all have a role to play.

Listen to Hillary Sanders‘ 8-minute audio story here.

Sara McCaslin

Sara McCaslin is an editor and visual journalist for The Seattle Globalist. She worked for several daily midwest newspapers including The Flint Journal, The Columbia Missourian and The Boone County Journal before moving to Seattle. Sara trains the next generation of journalists through the Globalist Apprenticeship Program and is a graduate of the Journalism School at the University of Missouri.

Hillary Sanders

Hillary is a natural-born writer who, from the age of five, was writing and illustrating books about her favorite zoo animals. She cares deeply about environmental and Latin American issues. As a Global Studies major, Hillary is excited about the prospects of being a foreign coorespondent and will travel in pursuit of a good story. Hillary's work has been published in the Bothell-Kenmore Reporter and the Seattle Globalist as well as on UWave Radio at the University of Washington Bothell.

Aida Solomon

Aida is a former Seattle Globalist apprentice and a communications major at the University of Washington. Being Ethiopian-American she is passionate to change the negative image of Ethiopia seen in the media. She loves traveling, learning languages and photography.