Classmate Profile

Leslie Hurtado 

1) My goal this year is to become a news reporter for an English news television station. I am interning at WGN Chicago to learn more about honing my writing skills and editing skills to achieve that goal.

2) I don't like following what everyone is doing because you lose a sense of yourself when you imitate others. That is not happiness. I am myself when I am surrounded by people that accept me for unapologetic character.

3) My passion is to report on issues that impact marginalized communities in Chicago in the future.

4) Family and loyal friends are important to me.

5) I hate pretentious people who do not give back to those less fortunate.

6) My pet peeve is people who don't look deeper into issues around them.

7) A bad habit would be not being able to concentrate when hearing instructions.

8) My biggest accomplishment was telling my family and friends that I was selected to be an intern for Telemundo Chicago.

9) My biggest investment would be nothing. I`m still investing for a brighter future.

10) I do plan on having a baby with my husband one day.

11) I have worked at many childcare centers and have interned at four media companies. I have five or more years of experience

12) I hang out at the thrift with my mom, and watch conspiracy theories with my husband at home.

13) When I started community college, I dreamed of working in the media industry, and now I am working in the media industry.

14) My favorite memory is every time spent with my mom, my sister, my dad, and my husband.

15) I traveled to New York recently this past year for a journalism conference