Joannie Sevilla
San Jose State University
islandgirl@surfree.com

ABOUT JOANNIE
STORIES
Joannie Sevilla was born in Guam but has lived in San Jose, Calif., for most of her life. She spent her Junior year in high scool at a boarding school in the Phillipines. She worked for the San Jose Mercury News in several departments: Classified Sales in Advertising, Market Research in Marketing and in the newsroom as assistant to the managing editor. She said that working in the newsroom at the Mercury News was the defining moment in her career when she realized she wanted to be a journalist. After Poynter, Joannie will do her second stint at San Jose State University's Spartan Daily as a senior staff writer, and graduate in December with a B.A. in Journalism and a minor in English.

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