Anthony Pesce is a junior at UCLA in geography/environmental studies. Next school year, he will be the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, the Daily Bruin. He wants to become a professional journalist, focusing on new media. Pesce enjoys thinking about creative ways to localize news coverage and build local communities around information. He won a Society of Professional Journalists Regional Mark of Excellence Award for general reporting, a first-place California College Media Association award for series writing and awards from both groups for editorial writing.

Dharmishta Rood is a senior at UCLA studying design/media arts. She is also the Daily Bruin’s photo editor. She believes that media are indispensable in daily life and can help build a better future. She writes a weekly column called “A Middle Moment,” that explores ideas about future and current media. In the fall, Rood will enroll in the Special Studies program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, focusing on how people learn about themselves through media interactions.

Note: Young Creator Award category