A lawmaker’s daughter goes over to the dark side
By Josh Richman
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012 at 1:47 pm in Jackie Speier, U.S. House.
The grapevine tells me Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, recently accompanied her daughter on a trip to the University of Missouri, Columbia, who’ll soon be starting there as a freshman; apparently Stephanie Sierra is interested in pursuing a bachelor’s degree from Mizzou’s renowned journalism school.
You’d think someone with Speier’s rhetorical skills could’ve talked her daughter into pursuing some line of work more honest and popular than journalism – maybe, used car sales, or perhaps ambulance-chasing tort law.
In all seriousness, however, Sierra appears to have had a distinguished record at Mercy High School, the same Catholic girls’ prep school in Burlingame that her mother had attended. As juniors, she and another student founded a “P.S. We Care” foundation to raise money to help people with autism; as a senior, she served as the student body’s secretary.
Mizzou was transformative for me, not only for the practical journalism education it offered but also as an expansion of horizons for a coastal kid suddenly dropped into the Midwest. I hope Ms. Sierra has as positive an experience there as I did.
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August 14th, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Rock Chalk!
Jayhawk!
KU!
August 14th, 2012 at 2:00 pm
@#1 – I just KNEW I didn’t like you, Elwood. Now I finally know why.
August 14th, 2012 at 4:17 pm
Piling on. . . .
GO ‘CATS!
(Though admittedly a less obviously well-known reference to Northwestern’s famed Medill School of Journalism.)
Hearty congratulations to Congresswoman Speier’s daughter.
August 14th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
@#2
What Josh said.
I’m Big Ten, but my sister and brother-in-law are K-State.
Wildcats!
August 14th, 2012 at 7:05 pm
Mizzou, Medill and Columbia are all top rated J-schools. But I wonder how many of their grads are getting jobs in journalism these days.
August 14th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Hey, journ students! After you have a few semesters under your belt, I can help you get a paid internship at the NY Herald Tribune, The Chicago Daily News or The Call-Bulletin in SF.
August 14th, 2012 at 8:24 pm
I wanted to mention Cal State Chico has a great journalism school too – the student paper the Orion wins national pacemaker awards almost every year – in fact the whole communication department is great. Having lived in Chico I can tell you is just like a mid-west town, it has great bars but lousy weather, most of the time. But I would agree with Josh, Mizzou is a great college, for a reporter it’s like going to Harvard Law.