Arianna Otero
Newsroom Intern Summer 2023Arianna Otero is a senior studying Digital Journalism at Florida International University.
Throughout her college career, she has worked in student media as a contributing writer for the South Florida Media Network and as a writer and News Director for PantherNOW. Arianna has also done freelance work for the Miami Herald. Recently, she joined WLRN's Tim Padgett on the South Florida Roundup to share her experiences as a student journalist and survivor of the 2018 Parkland shooting.
In her spare time, Arianna's interests include video games, pop culture and music. After graduation, she hopes to continue her career in journalism, focusing on politics and radio.
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Board members from the Miami-Dade County Public Schools unveiled 20 new electric school buses and seven electric vans to support special needs students. They are part of efforts to make the school district more sustainable and eco-friendly. -
Environmental protection, gun control and access to abortion topped the list of priorities for the group. -
The institution received $3 million dollars in federal funding as part of the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program, which seeks to help historically black colleges and universities, tribal colleges and universities, and minority-serving institutions in expanding their broadband internet access and buying necessary equipment. -
The Florida Board of Education's new rules reinforcing a slate of laws restricting instruction of sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom include limits on the use of preferred pronouns. -
Educators now risk losing their teaching license if they refer to students by preferred names or pronouns. They also run this risk if they use bathrooms, names or pronouns that don’t match their own sex assigned at birth. -
Loved ones and community members demanded action as they gathered in remembrance of farmworker Efraín López García, who died earlier this month while working outdoors in the sweltering heat. -
Students from Andover, West Miami, Thomas Jefferson and other local middle schools took part in a three-week summer program focusing on science, tech, engineering and math at Florida International University. -
As Tallahassee keeps passing more legislation targeting the LGBTQ community, LGBTQ Floridians report fearing for their livelihoods in the state. Crowd-funding sites like GoFundMe have seen an uptick in fundraisers to financially assist LGBTQ individuals and families to leave. -
Gov. Ron DeSantis' record-high budget came at the expense of over $30 million in vetoed projects in South Florida — in areas such as drainage, infrastructure and opioid treatment.
