A local college student journalist took a national stage to join a discussion on police reform.
Student journalist and rising sophomore at Washington and Lee University, Avalon Pernell, appeared in the first episode of a digital series called āMeet the Press: College Roundtable.āThe series brings together college journalism students from across the country for a virtual panel discussion diving into issues affecting them, their communities and the future of their education.
Pernell was featured in an episode alongside two other student journalists from University of Oklahoma and Indiana University, as well as Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto (D).
The students posed questions and discussed Pedutoās plans for police reform.
Peduto told the student journalists, āThe whole community has to be a partā of police reform, and āItās not just, write a check and walk away.āPernell is a news editor at Washington and Leeās student newspaper, The Ring-tum Phi.