I am a citizen journalist for MTV's Street Team '08. In total there are 51 of us – canvassing each state and Washington, DC (that’s me). MTV and the Knight Foundation hired each of us for an experiment in guerilla, multimedia journalism.
If you see a girl with a backpack of gear break into a sprint on K Street -- or the Mall -- or hell, in the Metro, wave hello. That's me, Erica America, out on the hunt. I see potential in everything and everyone, but want to cover stories that are untold. Underexposed. And of course, all things that speak to us-- the young people who are often under appreciated in mainstream press.
Here goes nothing.
CURRENT CHOOSE OR LOSE STORY
GI Bill -- Body Armor or Brain Power? -- 5/13
PAST CHOOSE OR LOSE STORIES
Supreme Civil Liberties -- 5/6
Ten Minutes with Eric Marshall -- 4/29
Green Apple Fest DC -- 4/22
At the Intersection of Issues-- 4/15
Decision to Desert: Part II -- 4/8
Decision to Desert: Part I -- 4/1
The U.S. Military: Vol•un•teers at War -- 3/25
A Government Issued Right -- 3/18 Congress Debates Education Budget -- 3/12 A Campaign In Crisis -- 3/4 Clinton's Last, Best Hope -- 2/26 The Way Helen Sees It -- 2/21 DC's Super Tuesday is Here -- 2/13
Dawn of the DC Primary -- 2/12 Kennedy Endorses Obama -- 1/29
Technorati Profile
Three former Presidents, a dozen U.S. Senators and fourteen Nobel Prize winners went to college on the GI Bill. Today? Soldiers are struggling to get by. With the cost of tuition, books and housing, the GI Bill barely covers the cost of a community college. So I had to wonder, what's the best wa...
For my 23rd birthday, my Dad sent me a copy of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. In it, he wrote, “To Erica, Wash. D.C. From Dad 5/8/07.” Today, I carry it arou...
