Walls of brick and metal surround me, and the sunsets of D.C. feel foreign on my skin. If I close my eyes long enough, the steel structures of the city melt in to the sloping brown backs of my mountains, and I’m home again, if only for a second. It...

Maybe I’m too cynical, but when I watch the news feeds and read the online articles about the U.S. bombing ISIS in Syria and Northern Iraq I can’t help but think that the U.S. at some point is going to put troops on the ground to combat this ongoing...

Growing up, my father was always the head of the household. My mother would take care of the cooking and the cleaning, my father would take care of all the bills. My parents attempted to raise me the same way in thinking that the man should take care...

My entire life I always knew I wanted to be in front of an audience. Whether it be performing, playing sports or speaking, I wanted to communicate something important to others. Throughout my high school career, I joined as many clubs and organizations...

I was a semester and a half away from an industrial engineering degree, but I was sitting in an office in Cotton setting up a schedule full of communication classes. After five years of struggling through engineering courses and flirting with a change...

Diversity doesn’t happen easily. It is slow progressive change. The pundit who asks, “why don’t they just hire more _____,” fails to understand the fiscal constraints in which media companies operate under. Newsroom budgets continuously contract...

It’s time to shatter the myth that young Latino journalists won’t leave home for jobs in news media.
 This thought and others flashed in neon across my mind as I sipped white wine recently in a San Antonio ballroom to celebrate 30 years of tilling...

Yesterday at the San Diego Comic-Con Gal "Gaddot" was shown for the first time in the Wonder Women outfit she will be wearing in the "Batman" and "Superman" movie. Her appearance in the outfit is not striking, but is enough to satisfy what will be...

I really hate American politics for one simple reason—it’s all bullshit, or to put it in more decent terms, it’s a façade. There’s corruption, lies and pointless dialogue that fills the airwaves of American politics. In a recent interview with...