In early July, Ainsley Martinez was unaware of what career to pursue. What she didn’t know was that soon two journalism camps would help her discover a new love for war correspondence writing.
Renowned Renaissance polymath Leonardo Da Vinci once proclaimed, “For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.”
Starting from a young age, Gabi Merchen found herself entranced by text scrawled across book pages. This curiosity for writing fully took shape in the halls of Yukon High School in Oklahoma as she stumbled into the role of editor-in-chief of her school newspaper, The Insight.