My name is Giovanna Kubota and I´m a fourth-year journalism major with a minor in international development and humanitarian assistance at the University of Florida. I was born and raised in a small town in São Paulo, Brazil, and since I was a child I have been volunteering to help people in need in small communities. Most of the time I was working with people who had no access to the internet and barely knew about what was going on in the world. I wanted to help them to have access to the news. I wanted them to have a voice.
As I grew up I realized that my passion for writing was getting stronger, as well as my motivation to provide information for those individuals. Before moving to Florida, I have noticed that journalism could give me the power of changing not only someone´s life, but entire communities through reporting and storytelling. Before UF, I was a student in Valencia College, Orlando, where I served as a contributor writer for the Valencia Voice, the college online newspaper. As an international student, I had the opportunity to cover soft news stories on international students´ services in the college, popular courses, and events around the campus. Moving to another country never meant losing contact with Brazil and a year ago I was offered, by the UF Center for Latin American Studies, a role as a English-Portuguese translator for the Brazilian newspaper Achei USA. Though I still have much to learn, I see myself working as a foreign correspondent for my country after graduating. Through multimedia reporting I´m very excited to improve my research skills. I´m new to the Gainesville area and will try hard to do the best journalism I´ve ever done by going out and interviewing the community. I want to learn as much as I can to be able to communicate across international news organizations. News media is extremely important nowadays and everyone deserves to have a decent access to it. I would like to get a sense of the community around me this semester and learn new ways of gathering people´s attention to those who doesn´t have a voice around the world.
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AuthorGiovanna Kubota is a 22-year-old Brazilian pursuing a master's degree in Communication at the University of Central Florida. |