Bloomberg Journalism Diversity Program announces largest cohort to date

The Bloomberg Journalism Diversity Program will host its largest group of students in the program’s history, with 50 students in the 2021 cohort. After having been put on hold in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s program, in partnership with the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, includes 30 participants in the United States. The UK program is in partnership with the Department of Journalism at City, University of London and includes 20 students.

Read more about the Bloomberg Journalism Diversity Program at Bloomberg.com.

Six of the 30 selected Bloomberg-UNC-Berkeley participants are UNC Hussman students — Anissa Deol ’22, Elizabeth Egan ’23, Jeremiah Holloway ’22, Sonia Rao ’23, Praveena Somasundaram ’22 and Nathan Wesley ’21.

2021 Bloomberg-UNC-Berkeley Program participants:

Manvee Bansal ’22
UNC-Chapel Hill

 

Raven Brooks ’20
North Carolina A&T State University

 

Jordan Brown ’23
Morgan State University 

 

Thalia Butts ’21
Claflin University 

 

Chelsea Cano ’22
UC Berkeley

 

Annika Constantino ’22
UC Berkeley

 

Anissa Deol ’22
UNC-Chapel Hill

 

Elizabeth Egan ’23
UNC-Chapel Hill

Caryl Espinoza Jaen ’23
North Carolina State University
 

 

Kurt Finkenstaedt ’23
James Madison University

 

Jeremiah Holloway ’22
UNC-Chapel Hill

 

Fallon Howard ’22
Ohio University

 

Nick Jenkins ’20
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

 

Jenny Kwon ’22
UC Berkeley

 

José Martínez ’22
University of Texas at Austin

 

María Paula Mijares Torres ’23
Drexel University 

 

Madeleine Nations ’22
University of Southern California

 

Ryan Nguyen ’21
University of Oregon 

 

Jin Ni ’22
Washington and Lee University 

 

Sonia Rao ’23
UNC-Chapel Hill

 

Anthony Robledo ’21
California State University, Fullerton

 

Noelle Romain ’21
UC Berkeley

 

Augusta Saraiva ’21
Northwestern University

 

Zaeem Shaikh ’22
California State University, Fresno
 

Hardika Singh ’21
Ohio University 
 

Praveena Somasundaram ’22
UNC-Chapel Hill
 

 

Chanel Stewart ’21
Spelman College
 

Earl Stroudemire ’21
University of Southern Mississippi

 

Makaelah Walters ’21
Appalachian State University 

 

Nathan Wesley ’21
UNC-CHapel Hill

 

 

2021 Bloomberg-UNC-City Program participants

Abigail Akanbi-Akinlade ’22
University of Warwick


 

Raed Altaf ’22
University College London

 
 

Manisha Balkissoon ’21
University of Warwick

 
 

Hakeem Faraj ’20
University of Salford

 
 

Sam Kalantzis ’22
Birmingham City University 

 
 

Usama Karatella ’21
King’s College London

 
 

Tanya Kaushal ’21
City, University of London

 
 

Ellie Kemp ’20
University of Salford

 
 

Kezia Kho ’20
City, University of London

 
 

Kess Leung ’21
The University of Nottingham

Plangnaan Longmut M.A. ’20
Univerisyt of Salford

 

Rushana Miller ’22
Birmingham City University 


 

Julia Oprzondek ’21
City, University of London




Ifedayo Osowa ’22
Loughborough University 




Anya Patel ’22
City, University of Journalism 
 

 

Georgina Quach M.A. ’21 
The University of Sheffield


 

Chido Ranganayi ’21
Swansea University




Richa Ved ’22
The University of Warwick




Ellie-Jai Williams ’22
University of Oxford




Chisaki Yamaguchi ’21
London School of Economics and Political Science