Our 2018-2019 Student Advisory Team

Sophia Amalyan

6th grade, Maryland

Years on the Student Advisory team: 2

Favorite resource in NewseumED: The News or Noise Map with resources on Pokemon Go.

Ellie Berenson
12th grade, Virginia

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 2

Zach Blank
12th grade, Washington, D.C.

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 3

Favorite resource on NewseumED: A video of Bill Clinton playing the saxophone on the "Arsenio Hall Show."

Adam Bressler
12th grade, Washington, D.C.

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 3

Favorite resource on NewseumED: The 1964 "Daisy Girl" political ad for President Lyndon B. Johnson that aired only once on television.

Joshua Brown
9th grade, Virginia

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 2

Favorite resource on NewseumED: The Chicago Tribune front page of Barack Obama winning the presidential election in 2008.

Kwame Brown II
11th grade, Washington, D.C.

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 2

Charlie Cherdak
10th grade, Maryland

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 2

Harry Cherdak
12th grade, Maryland

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 3

Favorite resource on NewseumED: The Baltimore News-Post front page when the U.S. declared war on Japan.

Isaiah Ferebee
8th grade, Maryland

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 1

Favorite resource on NewseumED: The New York Times front page in 1970 on the killing by National Guardsmen of four students at an antiwar demonstration at Kent State University.

Mitchell Fishman
9th grade, Maryland

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 1

Noah Freedman
12th grade, Washington, D.C.

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 2

Favorite resource on NewseumED: Coverage by the Chicago Daily Tribune of Jesse Owens's second gold medal win at the 1936 Olympics.

Trisha Ghosh
10th grade, Virginia

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 4

Favorite resource on NewseumED: The New York Press coverage of a mob helping suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst flee police in 1913.

Kaliyah Greene
10th grade, Maryland

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 1

Favorite resource on NewseumED: A "Solidarity Trumps Hate" protest sign carried by a counter-protester at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va.

Raya Gupta
6th grade, Maryland

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 1

Favorite resource on NewseumED: These anti-suffrage buttons that expressed opposition to extending the right to vote to women.

Jack Kelly
12th grade, Washington, D.C.

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 7

Favorite resource on NewseumED: An Italian newspaper covering Theodore Roosevelt's marathon speaking tour in 1903.

Sophie Kotlove
10th grade, Maryland

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 1

Favorite resource on NewseumED: A 2002 “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” banner that sparked a legal battle over free speech in schools that rose all the way to the Supreme Court.

Maren Parker-Burns
10th grade, Maryland

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 1

Favorite resource on NewseumED: These photos of Snapchat’s feature Snap Maps that showed public posts from people in Houston, Texas, during Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

Ellie Pugh
8th grade, Maryland

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 2

Favorite resource on NewseumED: The New York Times coverage in 1983 of Sally Ride becoming the first American woman in space.

Jayden Seay
10th grade, Virginia

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 1

Favorite resource on NewseumED: The Exercising My Rights stack page with various resources on how to effectively use the First Amendment.

David Shore
6th grade, Maryland

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 1

Santiago Silva
11th grade, Maryland

Years on the Student Advisory Team: 1

Favorite resource on NewseumED: A 1908 political cartoon from The Indianapolis News that drew attention to a group of Americans who unfairly profited off of the purchase of the Panama Canal.