Please join us virtually on Thursday, Oct. 15th at 6:00 pm ET for an alumni panel and Q&A session about careers in journalism and communications! We are grateful to have the opportunity to learn from 3 Stamps alumni – USC’s Sanika Bharghaw, Oregon’s Hannah Steinkopf-Frank, and Mercer’s Elizabeth Tammi. Please read their bios and be sure to register for the event at the link provided. You can submit any questions you have when you register.

Register here: https://airtable.com/shrEG1LuvHOoXYb5E

Meet our panelists:

Sanika Bhargaw currently works as a reporter/MMJ at NBC15, the NBC affiliate station in Madison, Wisconsin. Sanika fell in love with journalism in high school, eventually discovering broadcast journalism during her freshman year in college at the University of Southern California. While in college, Sanika used much of her Stamps enrichment fund to further her passion for journalism – using it to pay for a summer program visiting news organizations in Europe, and to help commute to an internship at the NBC station in Los Angeles. After graduating, Sanika joined the team at NBC15 in Madison in September 2018. In the last two years, she has covered a variety of topics, from state politics to the census to presidential campaign visits. Most recently, she has spent months covering the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as peaceful protests and violent riots following the death of George Floyd.

Osita Nwanevu is a staff writer at The New Republic. He is a former staff writer at The New Yorker and Slate and his work has also appeared in Harper’s Magazine, In These Times, and the Chicago Reader. Nwanevu is the former editor-in-chief of the South Side Weekly, a Chicago alternative newspaper, and a graduate of the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy.

Hannah Steinkopf-Frank is a University of Oregon Stamps Scholar alumna. She is a graduate student at Sciences Po in Paris, where she also works as freelance writer and photographer. She has written about social movements, culture, and history for outlets including Atlas Obscura, JSTOR Daily, Teen Vogue, Lit Hub, and The Grammys.

Elizabeth Tammi works as the social media lead for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope mission. She manages NASA Hubble’s online presence across multiple platforms with over 10 million followers, creates social media content, and coordinates with other NASA accounts to bring complex scientific discoveries to the general public in an accessible, engaging way. Tammi graduated from Mercer University in May 2020 with a degree in journalism and creative writing, and is also the author of the novels Outrun the Wind and The Weight of a Soul. While at Mercer, she worked as the News Editor for The Mercer Cluster, studied as a visiting student at Oxford, and completed internships with NASA, Georgia Public Broadcasting, The Macon Telegraph, and more.