BACKGROUND
About me!
I’m Mishal, and I’m a reporter for The University of Michigan's Publications. I also freelance for The Ann Arbor Family Magazine. As a senior in high school, I was the Editor-In-Chief of the yearbook: The Enthymion and the Managing Editor of our newspaper: The Huron Emery. The following stats represent the number of social media followers we gained, the stories I produced, and the amount of views our website received while I was The Huron Emery's web EIC as a junior.
1,171 followers gained
70+ Stories Published
35,641 Page views
When I'm not reporting...
- I love reading, my recent favorites have been The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett as well as You Don't Have To Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie
- I was an IB Career Program business student so I have the opportunity to take classes such as Accounting, Personal Finance, and Marketing
- As part of the Career Program I also had the role of President of International Baccalaureate Student Board
- I work as a shift manager for Jimmy John's
- I'm currently teaching myself Chinese and Urdu
Testimonials​
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Cody Harrell, adviser at East Lansing high school, uses my COVID/school-opening reporting in his lessons.
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Ava Butzu, adviser at Grand Blanc high school, said "If I was doing this program, I do not think that I could have accomplished as much as Garrett and Mishal have." in regards to our performance during the "Best Theme Ever" session at the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association's summer workshop.
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Huron High School's librarian commented "I was floored by the level of journalism in Mishal's article and the amount of supporting information used to back up claims. This was better than any article in MLive." regarding my school-reopening piece. (MLive is our local professional media source)
DEDICATIONS
To Julie Heng and Jack Harrison, you were my first inspirations in the world of journalism and for that I thank you.
To Cordelia, Ingrid and Rebecca for accepting me in a environment where I could barely accept myself, thank you for being my besties.
To Mrs. Sattherthwaite, Mr. Sattherthwaite, Mrs. Butzu, Mrs. Bunka, Mr. Sikkenga, Alyse, Trinity, Sophia, and Abbey for spending time with me in the pursuit of journalism. We make an awesome team.
To Devynn, Heather, Sofie, Alina, Divija, Salome, Emily, Kj, and Aska. None of you will probably see this but you are all amazing humans & I can't wait to see where you go.
To all of my teachers, you are all my original pacemakers and I couldn't have done it without you. I want to name a few teachers specifically for the impact you had in my learning: Mrs. Federhofer, Mrs. Badalamente, Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Schuitman, Mr. Milne, Mr. Erickson, Rianne, Ms. Garrett, Ms. Bellows, Ms. James, Ms. Choe, Ms. Medved, Ms. Freeland, Ms. Gordon, and Leen. I am so lucky to have gone to Huron and grown up with you, I wouldn't be me without all of you.
To the staffs of The Emery and The Enthymion especially Garrett, Maya, Ridhima, Allison, Rachel, Jack, Ben, Natalie, Allie, Caity, Ja'Nia, Jake, Vish, and Morgan. You are why we have amazing publications, I'm just watching and smiling.
To my parents and Zain, you have always supported me even when you have no idea what I'm doing. It's ok, I probably don't know what I'm doing either.