The CNS Annapolis Crew, Spring 2008
The bureau chief:
Rafael Lorente is a former reporter with the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Miami Herald. As a reporter in Washington for the Sun-Sentinel, Lorente covered the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, the attacks of Sept. 11, and U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America, particularly Cuba. He can be reached at rlorente@jmail.umd.edu.
The graduate students:
Kate Elizabeth Queram, 26, will cover environmental, agricultural and rural issues for Capital News Service. She received her undergraduate degree in English and Spanish from the University of Michigan. Before enrolling at Maryland, she worked for Cambridge University Press and interned with the Maritime Reporter, both based in New York. She can be reached at environment-ann@jmail.umd.edu.
Kelly Wilson, 22, will cover politics, the state budget and education. She received her undergraduate degree in English from Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania. She has freelanced for the University of Maryland's independent student newspaper, The Diamondback, and for the Prince George's Sentinel in Maryland, and Street Sense in Washington, D.C. During the fall semester of 2007 she was also an intern for American Journalism Review. She can be reached at schools-ann@jmail.umd.edu and politics-ann@jmail.umd.edu.
The undergraduate student:
Laura Schwartzman, 20, will cover health, welfare and social services. She reported on the city of College Park for The Diamondback last spring and previously interned for Thompson Publishing Group and Smartbrief. She can be reached at health-ann@jmail.umd.edu and welfare-ann@jmail.umd.edu.
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