Photo credit: nytimes.com Abby Philip realized her passion was in journalism and not cardiovascular surgery her junior year upon walking through The Harvard Crimson halls. A trip to Mississippi and Tennessee cemented this passion. "We traveled to the place where Emmett Till was killed," she said Friday during the Georges Conference on College Journalism, a zoom event sponsored by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. There, Phillip realized modern journalism was built on the foundation of reporters of that era retelling authentic stories of what they saw and experienced. Years later, as a CNN political correspondent and weekend anchor, Phillip still remembers the importance of minorities being able to authentically retell their experiences through journalism.