Raquel Coronell Uribe will become the first Latinx president of the Harvard Crimson student newspaper.
Raquel Coronell Uribe
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Raquel Coronell Uribe
Raquel Coronell Uribe will become the first Latinx president of the Harvard Crimson student newspaper.
Raquel Coronell Uribe
Raquel Coronell Uribe, a history and literature major from Miami, will become the Harvard Crimson first Latinx president in the 148-year history of the student newspaper. She took the helm in January.
“It’s a great honor,” Coronell Uribe told NPR. “Even if it took 148 years, I’m glad I was able to be that first.”
Coronell Uribe is currently covering police accountability as a reporter for Crimson, where she writes stories about the college. looking for a new sheriff among other problems. She is also the social media manager and editor of the newspaper’s daily email newsletter.
Journalism runs in her family. Coronell Uribe was born in Colombia, but her family was forced to move to the US when she was 6 years old because of death threats because her father was an investigative reporter.
In fact, both her father and mother are journalists. And growing up around their work sparked her interest in the field.
“The length of time that people are willing to go to hide investigations and hide the truth only highlights how much more important it is to me,” said Coronell Uribe.
“Especially as I became more aware of what happened as I got older, it made me want to do journalism even more, because I can’t think of anything more impactful than providing information. important information to the people around you and allows them to make informed and better decisions,” she added.
Selected as Crimson’s next president after an application process that required an essay and dozens of interviews, Coronell Uribe said she hopes her choice will lead to more Latinx presidents in the future.
“I hope that opening that door will allow it to stay open,” she said. “That’s what excites me the most.”
Coronell Uribe, the head of Crimson’s in-house Latinx interest group, said she wants to make the opportunity more inclusive for Hispanic and Latinx students, who are often under-represented in student newsrooms. . She wants her students to “feel like they can explore the field before they enter the uncouted real world and an industry where they are also underrepresented.”
She said she also wanted to focus on digital innovation at the paper and continue the legacy of previous Crimson presidents, bill itself is the nation’s oldest continuously published university newspaper (although other documents may not agree).
“I’m constantly scared that I get to work with such excellent people, such excellent journalists. We are both students so we have the whole course and are dealing with student affairs. but also passionate about student journalism, about informing our community,” said Coronell Uribe. “It’s been an inspiration to be able to work with them every day and I’m truly grateful for leading us into a new year.”
