Storyteller Careers informs and empowers the next generation of professional storytellers.
It highlights the diverse career pathways of former high school journalists and media students.
It draws connections between high school newsrooms, college media experiences and the professional world of media and communications.
It offers college and early career insights needed to turn today's fun times on the high school paper (or website, magazine, yearbook, or broadcast) into tomorrow's professions.
The storytellers of Storyteller Careers
Blake Fisher
Position
Video Editor
Spring – Fall 2026
College
Kent State University
Major
Digital Media Production
High School
Wilmington Area High School
New Wilmington, Penn.
High School Media Experience
Anchor, Morning Announcements
Kristen Ibeziako
Position
Video Editor
Spring – Fall 2026
College
Kent State University
Major
Communication Studies
High School
Federal Science and Technical College
Lagos, Nigeria
High School Media Experience
Podcast Co-Host
Olivia Montgomery
Position
Interviewer and Copy Editor
Fall 2025
College
Kent State University
Major
Journalism
High School
Olmsted Falls High School
Olmsted Falls, Ohio
Sophia Stohlmeyer
Position
Interviewer and Copy Editor
Fall 2025 – Spring 2026
College
Kent State University
Major
Communication Studies
High School
Hudson High School
Hudson, Ohio
High School Media Experience
Photography Courses
Grace Slocum
Position
Interviewer and Copy Editor
Summer 2026
College
Kent State University
Major
Journalism
High School
Pavilion Central School
Pavilion, New York
High School Media Experience
Literary Magazine Writer and Editor
Peter Bobkowski
Position
Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism
Graduate School
University of North Carolina
Graduate Program
Mass Communication
High School
Louis St. Laurent Catholic Junior/Senior High School
Edmonton, Canada
High School Media Experience
Yearbook Editor
Storyteller Careers is a project of the Center for Scholastic Journalism at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.
The Center for Scholastic Journalism fosters journalism education in K-12 schools. It is supported with a Knight Foundation endowment.
Backpack, a student-run strategic communication agency at the University of Minnesota, developed the Storyteller Careers brand and its design elements.
This website is created with the Elementor page builder and hosted on Pagely, a WordPress hosting platform.