A student research project in Boston is drawing attention to price disparities between grocery stores in high and low-income neighborhoods. Student journalist…
by Victoria Hodge
December 18, 2020
Growing up, I was used to being the “only one.” I was the only Black girl in many of my elementary school classrooms, newspaper staff, debate team, and even in college lectures at the University of Virginia. That anxious feeling of being surrounded by faces that were not like my own was a familiar one.
Victoria Hodge working on a project during her summer internship at Student Reporting Labs.
As an aspiring journalist, I expect I will often be the “only one” in the workplace. While 38% of newsrooms have made diversity gains in the last 15 years, many publications are still lacking in overall diversity. According to this 2018 Pew Research Center study, “newsroom employees are more likely to be white and male than U.S. workers overall.” My worries about feeling underrepresented are not unfounded.