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The Art of the Interview
I talked to a bunch of smart journalists about how they conduct interviews.
1. Know your subject.
2. Come in with a plan.
3. Write questions ahead of time, but prioritize conversation.
4. Just come out and ask the hard stuff.
5. Embrace the silences.
6. Think in soundbites.
7. Play dumb.
8. Keep the mic running after you finish.
More here.
Our designers did an amazing job on the third issue of Pioneer Magazine. If you haven't yet, check it out!
For the third issue of Pioneer Magazine, I covered the retrial of Charles Wilhite, a man who faced life in prison for first-degree murder. The article explores issues of community activism, the criminal justice system and the intersection of race.
Candidate Warren talks donations and gets some in Edgartown
Originally published July 12, 2012, in the Martha's Vineyard Times.
On Sunday afternoon, Democratic candidate for the Senate from Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren appeared at a fundraiser held in the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown. She discussed her campaign and answered questions from among approximately 500 people, many of them donors who paid the requested $25 (friend), $50 (supporter), $100 (sponsor) or $250 (host).
On June 2, Ms. Warren won the Massachusetts Democratic Party's nomination to compete for incumbent Republican Senator Scott Brown's seat in the November election. She won 95.7 percent of the party vote. In 30 years, no Democratic candidate has won by such a large margin.
That support was evident Sunday. Cars parked outside the church displayed bumper stickers endorsing the candidate. Caroline Kennedy of Aquinnah and her son, Jack, attended.
Of her fundraising effort, Ms. Warren said she is trying to catch up to Senator Brown. "On the day I declared I was running for the United States Senate, Scott Brown already had a plan," she said. "The plan was to collect millions of dollars before the Senate race ever started, from the Tea Party and Wall Street."
But Ms. Warren has caught up, and then some. The Democrat Senate hopeful has raised $15,842,403, according to data from the Federal Election Commission. Senator Brown has raised $11,977,810.
While Ms. Warren has outraised Mr. Brown since she entered the race in September, the incumbent began the race with $7 million in his campaign treasury. He now has about $4 million more in cash than Ms. Warren does.
The top three donors to Senator Brown are FMR Corporation, $167,975, Goldman Sachs, $73,900, and Liberty Mutual, $73,650.
He has received 83 percent of contributions from individual donors, 13 percent from political action committees, and $777,353 from undisclosed sources.
The three top contributors to Ms. Warren's campaign are Emily's List, $306,908, Harvard University, $157,451, and Moveon.org, $47,140.
Ninety-seven percent of contributions to Ms. Warren were from individual donors. Two percent of donations were from political action committees, and one percent, $169,331, was from undisclosed sources.
Ms. Warren criticized Senator Brown, who opposed a bill requiring more detailed campaign finance disclosures, and called for more clarity in political fundraising.
"The first thing is, we can do much better disclosure. We need candidates to tell who is contributing, tell how much is being contributed, and doing it within 24 hours," Ms. Warren said. "We need to have a good, public conversation about campaign financing. "
On Monday morning, Althea Harney, Ms. Warren's press secretary, declined to answer when asked how much Sunday's event raised for the Warren campaign. She said the tally would be released to the Federal Election Commission in the campaign's next quarterly report.
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Hey-- just noticed you're editing for Pioneer mag. I picked up that first copy and loved it! Keep up the awesome work. -Lindsay
Thanks so much! We've gotten a lot of positive response to the magazine!
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From the second issue of Pioneer Magazine. The first, and probably only time I will quote Shakespeare in print.
Each month, for Pioneer Magazine, I write a brief rundown of Valley News.
A bold venture in independent media, we aim to give Valley residents a closer look at artistic life and pressing political issues in their communities. Pioneer, a new monthly magazine, arrived on area newsstands this November. Started as a unique collaboration between Five College students, professors and area residents, Pioneer aims to upend traditional notions of community journalism by making provocative ideas and in-depth analysis of local issues accessible to a broad public.
Governor of Virgin Islands visits Martha's Vineyard
Originally published in the Martha's Vineyard Times.
The first image most visitors to the U.S. Virgin Islands see looking out a plane window is clear blue water and white sand and shell beaches. Upon arriving on St. Thomas and St. Croix, they might be surprised to also see signs with directions to the University of Virgin Islands (UVI) campuses, reminders that there is a thriving educational institution on islands best known as resorts.
At a reception Saturday during a weekend visit to Martha's Vineyard, Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands John de Jongh, his wife, Cecile, UVI President David Hall, and his wife, Marilyn, drew connections between the two travel destinations, and discussed the everyday needs of year-round residents of the Virgin Islands.
Auguste "Gus" Rimpel, and his wife, Maria, hosted the visitors at their Vineyard Haven home.
Mr. Rimpel was born in the Virgin Islands, but said he has a "two-sided love affair with this other Island; Martha's Vineyard." Chairman emeritus of the UVI Board of Trustees, he and his wife also own a home in the Virgin Islands.
"The Virgin Islands is a place of tourism where a lot of people come to, and we want you to have a very nice time. If you don't have money, we still accept credit cards," Gov. de Jongh told a crowd of several dozen. "But, once you peel that back, it's a very exciting, and a dynamic community that is changing."
The event was held to raise awareness of UVI, a public institution with campuses on St. Croix and St. Thomas that began admitting students 50 years ago. Currently there are 2,392 students enrolled.
"One of our aspirations has always been to make the university better known, and I think that it's one of the best kept secrets in the Western hemisphere in terms of higher education," Mr. Hall said. "Though people within the Eastern Caribbean are very much familiar with UVI, a lot of individuals on the mainland are not."
Mr. Hall became the president of the university three years ago, leaving his position as dean of the Northeastern University School of Law, which he held since 1993.
"When I was given the opportunity to take on this position, many of my friends, some in this room, said I was deciding to become president because of the beaches and the turquoise water and escaping the Boston winters," he told party attendees. "Though that was part of the reason, there was a deeper motivation. This is a very special university where I felt I could make a difference in the lives of students of the Virgin Islands."
Quickly, Mr. Hall realized he needed to reach out to students beyond the university walls. The superintendent of the St. Thomas district schools contacted him, saying that she had 50 male students that were going to fail the seventh grade, a microcosm for the public school system in the territory.
Seventh grade is a pivotal point to reach out to students on the Island, Mr. Hall said, because it is at that age when students begin to be held back or drop out. "If left back, they would become more vulnerable to gangs and falling on the negative path." In 2010, the Virgin Islands had the second highest homicide rate in the world, behind only Honduras.
The two worked with other school administrators and teachers to develop an intensive remedial program to help students continue their studies. "All of the students who participated in that program were able to move on to the eighth grade," he said.
When the governor took office January 1, 2007, his wife, First Lady Cecile de Jongh, made one of her causes literacy, focusing on early education.
"We've made the connection between our youngest and those going off to college," she said. "We're taking care of ages zero to seventh grade, and Dr. Hall can take care of the older ones. In the words of Obama: we've got this."
Yet low rates are still felt at the college level. In 2009, the UVI student body was 75 percent female and 25 percent male, with only one in four students earning a degree after six years of study. To increase recruitment, retention, and graduation rates, Dr. Hall convened a male initiative called "Brothers with a Cause." Three years later, the student body is 30 percent male.
"We're not satisfied by any stretch of the imagination," he said. "But we are making some inroads."
Last month, the university was dealt a budget cut of $3.5 million from government contributions. "We're tightening our belts more so than we would like, but that's the reality we're facing," Mr. Hall said.
To close the budget gap between spending and receiving, the campus created the "50 for 50 Campaign," asking UVI alumni to donate for the university's anniversary.
Mr. Hall said donations are up to 25 percent, from 6 percent two years ago. "We're very impressed," he said. "If you know any alumni who haven't donated, or would like to become an alumni and donate, let us know."
Dionne V. Jackson, UVI Vice President for Institutional Advancement, thanked all for attending the event and gave special thanks to the Rimpels, Dr. Hall, and the governor.
"I'd like to thank him for his support of the university and for making sure — he actually promised — there would be no more budget cuts to the university," said Ms. Jackson with a wink as she shook hands with Governor de Jongh. "Thank you, thank you governor."
Now, a young immigrant may stay, but how to pay for Cornell
Originally published in the Martha's Vineyard Times.
Day after day, Paula Corts has one number in mind: $59,591, the price of a year's tuition at Cornell University, where she is a senior.
Paula came to the Vineyard nine years ago. She learned English, graduated from Martha's Vineyard Regional High School, and enrolled at Cape Cod Community College. After graduating with honors, she was accepted to Cornell, fulfilling a dream to attend an Ivy League school.
While the excitement of her acceptance letter was fresh, she realized that federal financial aid was not available to her. The excitement dissipated.
On Wednesday, young immigrants nationwide filed paperwork with the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services to be able to work and stay in the country without fear of deportation.
Not a grant of permanent legal status, the temporary benefits allow as many as 1.7 million immigrants who came to the country as children to legally obtain drivers' licenses and work permits. President Obama announced the policy in mid-June.
"They are Americans in their hearts, in their minds, in every single way but one: on paper," Mr. Obama said at a press conference. "They were brought to this country by their parents, sometimes even as infants, and often have no idea that they're undocumented until they apply for a job or a driver's license or a college scholarship."
Though the policy gives Paula documentation and makes her residency legal, it doesn't allow her, or other immigrants, to apply for college grants, loans, or scholarships.
Immigrating to the United States
When she was 12 years old, her parents, Juan and Marta, told her and her 13-year-old brother, Gonzalo, that they needed to talk. They were moving to America.
"The economy in our country was horrible. We used to have business there, a big restaurant," Marta said, sitting with her husband and daughter in their Vineyard Haven house.
"But we worked long hours for no money," Juan said.
In 2002, the couple boarded a plane for New York, leaving their children with Juan's mother until they could find work and a stable place to live. "It was a very hard decision. We didn't take them because we were very, I don't know the word," Marta said, looking to her daughter to translate. "Vulnerable," Paula completed her mother's sentence.
"We traveled for 20 hours, and she cried for 22," Juan said of his wife on the flight to the United States.
Within a week, the two found work on Martha's Vineyard, where Juan's brother lived, Marta as a housekeeper and Juan as a maintenance worker. Soon, they rented a house in Oak Bluffs. By the end of the year, Paula and her brother got a long distance call from their mother. They would be reunited.
The siblings traveled to Boston with an uncle, a few bags of their belongings and visas allowing them to remain in the U.S. as tourists for six months. Their parents were at the airport to meet them.
Though she and her brother didn't speak English, Paula enrolled at Oak Bluffs School and Gonzalo at Martha's Vineyard Regional High School. To learn English, Paula said she would watch Lord of the Rings, her favorite movie at the time, over and over.
In time, at Cape Cod Community College, she maintained a 3.8 grade point average. Last spring, a few months before she received her associate degree, Paula began looking at animal science programs.
"I've wanted to be a veterinarian for as long as I can remember," Paula said. She has worked at Animal Health Care in West Tisbury since her senior year in high school. "I began to volunteer with them and last summer they hired me as a veterinary assistant."
After college, she would like to return to the clinic and work as a veterinarian.
Known for its College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University was Paula's target. She discussed her choice with her mother.
"I said, 'Paula, please, we don't have papers here, we're immigrants,' and she said, 'let me try,'" Marta said.
A few weeks later, Marta saw a large envelope addressed to her daughter on her kitchen counter. "The letter was from Cornell, and it said congratulations," Marta said. "I screamed, my gosh. It was unbelievable."
But the excitement soon faded.
High cost of education
For the 2011-2012 school year, the annual cost of attendance was $57,125. Though expensive, Cornell offers millions in financial aid.
In 2011, the university awarded $224 million to 8,931 students, 64 percent of undergraduate student body. On average, students received $33,000.
Paula cannot apply for financial aid through federal programs or a private loan because of her immigration status.
Director of financial aid at Cornell, Thomas Keane, said students without legal documentation are considered international students.
At Cornell, there are 3,868 international students. Each year, 30 to 40 are chosen to receive financial aid, according to the university's International Students and Scholars Office.
"With domestic students, we try to assist them in meeting their full financial need. For this we have a large pot of money to spend," Mr. Keane said. "For international students we have a more limited budget."
For U.S. students whose families make less than $60,000 per year, the university covers the entire cost of college.
Tax returns filed by Juan and Marta show they made $30,000 for the year, but because she is considered an international student, Paula didn't qualify for aid.
Brendan O'Brien, director of Cornell's international student office, said the university policy stems from a commitment to meeting the needs of domestic students first. When discussing aid available for domestic students, he was surprised by the amount available. "Twenty-two million. Wow, is that how much aid was given?"
Though she didn't receive aid from the university, Island groups gave Paula several thousand in scholarship dollars. She received $2,500 from the Trustee of the deLoura Family, $2,000 from the Permanent Endowment for Martha's Vineyard, and $2,000 from the Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society. To pay the remaining $50,000 for her first year at Cornell, her third college year, the family borrowed money from family and friends.
"That kind of bill reeks havoc on a landscaper and a housekeeper," Chilmark resident Robert Kenney said in a conversation recently. He has known the family for years, since Marta began cleaning his house. "It's absolutely unconscionable for the school to imagine this family can afford the cost of tuition," he said.
With her bill paid, the family traveled to upstate New York to drop their daughter off at the Ivy League school. "My dreams came true that day," Marta said. "The school was wonderful, it was so beautiful."
Paula moved into the Alice H. Cook House, a stately brick building with a dining room, leisure common area, and library. On the first day she met her roommate Sarah Chung, an international student from Seoul.
Together, the two women studied, tried new types of takeout food, and watched movies. Ms. Chung described her roommate as "willing, independent, neat, hard worker, and very diligent," in an email. They will live together this year if Paula remains in school.
Though the family managed to pay tuition last year, they don't think it's possible again.
Juan said he had hoped President Obama's policy would let her apply for aid.
Immigration action at the University
Two years ago, Cornell president David Skorton signed a letter in support of the DREAM Act, a bill that would provide a path to citizenship for young people brought to the country as children, but the measure failed in the Senate.
"I'm a first-generation American," President Skorton wrote in the letter. "It's a common experience to come to a country from elsewhere as an American dream. We want to make the American dream possible for these deserving students."
In November, three Cornell students delivered a letter to the university president calling for financial reforms to improve the lives of immigrant students.
"Cornell has not taken any concrete action to support undocumented youth currently enrolled or attempting to enroll in our institution," the letter, written by Jessica Perez of the class of 2013, David Angeles '13, and Luz Aceves '14. "Cornell University does not provide legal, emotional or additional financial support meant to address the dire and unique circumstances and needs of undocumented students." The three students came to the country as children illegally and said they're speaking for themselves and others.
According to the Cornell Sun, the student newspaper, there are between 15 to 30 undocumented students at Cornell.
Ms. Perez said that receiving financial aid through the current system is "all a matter of luck."
"The international office says they have nothing against undocumented students, but nothing is being done to help them," she said in a phone interview. "As a school, we are not living up to our motto. The university's motto, said by co-founder Ezra Cornell, is 'I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.'"
In November, President Skorton pledged to find sources of funding for undocumented students at an undergraduate student government meeting. He has not announced any sources of funding yet.
In an email to Paula, he said he understood her disappointment with the financial aid process. "We receive many more financial aid applications from international and undocumented students than we have funds to support," Mr. Skorton wrote. "We have a limited budget, set each year, for international/undocumented student financial aid."
President Skorton could not be reached directly for comment.
"This is the dream, but now it's like all the doors are starting to close," Marta said, wiping a tear, as her husband held her hand.
On Friday, Paula will begin a new semester, unsure how long she will remain a student. By Friday, Paula is expected to pay $12,000 of her $59,591 bill, though she is unsure how she will do so.
"It's a lot of pressure," she said. "I just want to go back to school, study for my classes, be a student."
Fond of Photoshop, Martha's Vineyard student develops typeface
Originally published in the Martha's Vineyard Times.
When typing a document, a writer can choose from thousands of fonts. Some prefer Arial, others Times New Roman, or even Helvetica. For Dana Jacobs, creating her own was more fun.
For an independent study class, the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School rising senior created a typeface.
Near the end of the semester, Dana was at a loss, unsure of the font she wanted to create. Then, one day, while sipping coffee with friends at Mocha Mott's, she became inspired and began to draw a font on a notepad.
Her drawings over coffee resulted in a font named the "Sixty Four Dollar Question."
"I hadn't heard the phrase before, but a little research told me it is kind of a common phrase everyone has heard of," Dana said. "I thought it was just interesting because it kind of embodied everything."
The decorative font has designs within the letters and a mix of cursive and print features. "I just kind of played around with it, adding loops and lines. I just had a lot of fun with it," she said. "It's not very similar to my own handwriting, but I tried to make each of the letters a little bit cohesive."
After completing the font in mid-June, she uploaded it to dafont.com, a popular website for people interested in graphic design. Immediately, Dana's design was a hit. As of Tuesday, the design had been downloaded over 11,000 times.
"I expected to get a few downloads, but the number rose really fast in the first week," she said.
Dana has also received an offer from a U.K. company to use the font for advertisements.
Her interest in graphic design sparked at a young age. At 11 years old, she asked her father for an irregular gift — Photoshop, the photo editing computer software.
From editing photos, Dana became interested in fonts. "Type just became something that goes along with all of that," she said. "I've always wanted to create a font."
The success of her first font attracted the attention of Sam Berlow of Tisbury, the general manager of Font Bureau, a digital type studio located in Boston with an office on the Island. Mr. Berlow offered Dana an internship for the summer to help hone her graphic design skills and build a portfolio.
Her first project with the company will be creating another font. "I'm going to start building a typeface with him in the next few weeks," Dana said. "I'm so excited."
This typeface she imagines to be "more professional" and envisions it being used as a header on a magazine.
After completing high school at MVRHS, Dana hopes to study graphic design and hone her type font skills at college.
"The Sixty Four Dollar Question" can be downloaded at www.dafont.com/sixty-four-dollar-question.font.
Queens take the stage
Originally published in the student newspaper of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the Daily Collegian.
Pink lights illuminated the dimly-lit Campus Center Auditorium as three former cast members of the show “RuPaul’s Drag Race” addressed discrimination and diversity in the drag community yesterday evening.
Shannel was the first to sashay her way to the stage in a black, Victorian-style gown bejeweled with rhinestones. She worked her way through the crowd of approximately 250 people, blowing kisses as she lip-synced to a mix of Italian opera and an Annie Lennox song.
She and the two other entertainers, Shangela and Bebe Zahara Benet, became known to television viewers on the first season of the Logo TV show.
Yesterday’s event, titled “Divas of Diversity,” was a part of a nationwide tour discussing discrimination faced by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” is a mix of “America’s Next Top Model” and “Project Runway,” featuring nine drag queens vying for stardom through beauty and talent competitions. The show is hosted by RuPaul Charles, the competition’s 50-year-old creator, who alters between donning vintage Ferragamo suits and ties and custom-made evening gowns in full makeup on the show. The contestants compete for a cash prize and a lifetime supply of Kryolan makeup.
Shangela channeled Beyonce as she came on the stage, wearing a fitted gold and black gown and a large curled wig. She performed a montage to several of Beyonce’s songs, dancing both on the stage and in the crowd. Shangela was featured on the television show in the second and third seasons.
Bebe Zahara Benet, born Nea Marshall Kudi Ngwa, was the final entertainer to enter the auditorium wearing a sequined floor-length gown and a Nina Simone-inspired wig. While dancing to Beyonce, she kissed two members of the audience.
She kissed UMass student Manuel Mantilla on the cheek, who said he wouldn’t be washing off the rouge colored kiss for the remainder of the night.
Bebe, a native of the Republic of Cameroon, said she broke into drag by way of the runways in Paris. According to the biography on her website: “When one of the female models failed to arrive, Marshall stepped out of his trousers and into an elegant evening gown, then walked the runway impersonating a female. It was at that moment when the gorgeously graceful, creatively elegant Bebe Zahara Benet was born.”
As more than a female impersonator, Bebe said: “I personally don’t like to be called a drag queen. I know everybody knows us as drag queens, and I don’t get hurt when I get called a drag queen, but I like to be referred to as an entertainer or a performing artist because there are so many things that I do in this art form.”
“The divas are putting on their heels to entertain and educate campuses. The event provides the opportunity for young people to have a platform to embrace their differences and celebrate diversity – all while having a great time,” according to the tour’s website.
The event was sponsored by the University Programming Council.
Natalie Casey, the multicultural events coordinator for UPC, said the event was the result of a concerted effort with the Stonewall Center, an organization that provides support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
“I feel like there’s not a lot of events geared toward the LGBT community, so that’s why we wanted to do something for UPC that’s for that group of people,” she said.
She added that the Council “plans to do more events like this.”
During the discussion section of the event last night, Shangela, whose birth name is Darius Williams, spoke of struggles and discrimination during childhood that motivated her to speak out.
“I grew up in a really strict Baptist household. My grandfather always had me in church, sometimes on Sundays, sometimes on Fridays, and I was in the house by 10,” she said. “I would always feel uncomfortable when we would get to parts of religion when we specifically dealt with homosexuality. You’ll be sitting there and you say, ‘yeah, that’s good, I’m feeling it,’ and then it goes, ‘and the gays go to hell,’ and you’re like ‘oh.’”
When asked if she faced discrimination as an African-American, Bebe responded that she felt discriminated against not for her race, but rather for her occupation.
“Whether it’s philanthropic work or something, the first people who will get attention are drag queens,” said Bebe. “The first people out there trying to make their voice heard by the community, but when it’s all said and done, then okay, well, it’s drag. That’s something we’re still facing.”
Shannel, whose off-stage name is Bryan Watkins, expanded on stereotypes of drag queens.
“A lot of people who don’t understand but know that you do drag, automatically assume that you are effeminate as a boy, that you’re a drug addict, you’re a whore or you’re an alcoholic,” she said.
She said she has never taken illegal drugs and drinks, on average, four glasses of wine per year, adding: “I am farthest thing from a whore that anybody can actually imagine. So I, like you, am a good conservative woman of the lord.”
While they identified with female pronouns throughout the night, the performers said that as soon as their wigs and makeup are off, they are men.
“For me, drag is a job, drag is a paycheck, drag is entertainment. It starts and ends there. When this comes off, my hat backwards, my jeans, my tennis shoes. I can work on cars, I can cook, I can clean, I can do anything any coat-on-coat straight guy can do,” said Shannel, adding, “I can put on a suit and tie, and most people, fortunately enough, would not have a clue what I do … to me, I’m just who I am.”
Throughout the night, the three made jokes regarding gender, sexuality, disabilities and race. Following her first performance, Shangela asked the group “lesbians, how are you doing? Did they close the Home Depot early?”
While walking through the audience, Shannel asked for a napkin and said, “I’m sweating like a retard at a spelling bee.”
During the question and answer section, an audience member expressed concern about the joke as an ally of people with mental disabilities.
“I try to be an ally and an advocate to everyone and so I stand up when I hear offensive language.” She added that Shannel’s comment “goes against the message of diversity and that really offended me.”
Shannel responded, “I would not be part of this program in here to spread the word of hope and voice, and I would not have gone on a plane for seven hours to come here if you’re really going to take that much offense to that, though I do apologize if that offended anybody else out there.”
The event ended with the opportunity for audience members to take photos with the three performers, who formed a line reaching the entrance to the auditorium.
Michelle Williams can be reached at [email protected]. Ardee Napolitano can be reached at [email protected].