It’s hard to believe it was almost four years ago when I sat in my first class at the University of Utah. I used to roll my eyes when people would reel off all the painful cliches about how...

  When I was 5 years old, I submitted a small book I wrote called “Cat and Dog” to the “Literature” category in my school’s Reflections contest, an arts contest for students within the...

  Too often female voices are brushed aside. Too often we hear, “women are to be seen and not heard.”  For generations, as women, we have been conditioned to remain small. We have learned...

  I have officially spent over two years at the Daily Utah Chronicle, and it’s been a wild ride.   I got this position after I started standing back up from the lowest point in my life. I...

  In the education world, we talk about the idea of not just learning to write, but also writing to learn. This is precisely what I urge you to do.  I have always been writing: I started my...

  I still remember when I was a wide-eyed freshman, walking around campus and looking for ways to get involved. I had picked communication as a tentative major, since you had to choose upon enrollment....

  It’s the summer of 2023. I’m sitting in the dirt at sunrise under an I-15 overpass in the middle of one of Salt Lake City’s largest homeless encampments. The smell is the kind that pinches...

  Rewind to 17-year-old Hannah making one of the hardest decisions of her life: University of Utah or University of Southern California. We all know how that decision panned out. But it wasn’t...

  I started writing for the Chronicle late in my college career, only giving myself around a year to write. Still, this last year has been absolutely phenomenal and the closest I’ve felt to the...

  During my time at the Daily Utah Chronicle, I had the privilege of writing for the Investigative Desk. During my three years at the Chrony, I have gotten to learn more about an environment...