Sarah Kimball Stephenson
jurist
jurist
I joined JURIST at the beginning of my first year of law school. It has been a great way to continue my passion for research and local news while keeping up with legal news from across the planet. In the spring I will begin as the Chief of Staff for Western North America. You can check out all my work for JURIST here.
alice magazine
alice magazine
I worked at Alice magazine from Spring 2018 to Spring 2020. I served as a contributor first, and then newsletter editor for the 2019-2020 school year. The newsletter featured a discussion of current events in the news as well as lifestyle tips and updates on the magazine. These are some of my most recent spreads.
ALABAMA PUBLIC RADIO & WVUA
ALabama public rADIO & WVUA
As part of my Master's program, I interned with both Alabama Public Radio and the Tuscaloosa news station, WVUA 23. Check out my work for APR from Summer 2020 Through this experience I became proficient in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition.
I wrote the script, did the interview and pulled soundbites for this radio story.
Check out my work for WVUA 23 digital media.
unpublished research
unpublished research
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In my Master's program, we were tasked with researching patterns of news coverage as it relates to a historic event. I decided to amplify the contributions of Southern feminists' actions during the women's liberation movement in the 1970s. I presented this work at the American Journalism Historians Association Southeast Symposium and UA's Discerning Diverse Voices Symposium. You can read more here!
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Through the UA Honors college, I took an administrative law class at UA's law school while I was still in undergrad. I was fascinated by all of the opportunities that civilians have to provide their input on proposed rules and regulations and wondered how so few people knew about this. I wrote a legal research paper about agencies' best practices for soliciting public comment and how to ensure civilian participation is gathered before rules are passed. Read it here!
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My initial experience with long-form research was during my first semester as an English major. We read Emily Dickinson's poetry for class, and there was something about her unconventional writing that struck me. Her rebellion seemed to go over my classmate's heads and they attributed traditional heteropatriarchal interpretations to what seemed to me subversive and notedly queer. Many historical transcriptions and modifications of her work force her into conformity, so I took my own guesses at what she was getting at. Read it here!