My name is Sarah Hunt, and I am a reporter for the Arizona State University Odyssey. I am a junior majoring in Print Journalism at the ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, with a minor in Cross Sector Collaboration.

I joined the Odyssey Online this year and am excited to bring news to you all! I will be covering topics such as social impact, lifestyle, student life, adulting, stuff, and entertainment.

I also have articles published in the Queen Creek Independent newspaper, online and in print. Check out my articles here!

I am from Queen Creek, Arizona. Although I was born near San Francisco, California, two weeks later my family moved to Gilbert (and later Queen Creek), so I consider myself an Arizona native. My family has lived in Arizona for 5 generations and we don't plan on moving any time soon! A fun fact about me is that I collect vinyl records. I enjoy music from the 1940's to today, so it is a broad spectrum. I also like to wakesurf at the lakes here and hike with my friends and their dogs since I usually bring my chihuahua and boxer-beagle mix. I have a passion for creating art, especially towards ceramics. I did three years of ceramics classes in high school and loved it!

I took a deferment after my freshman year and served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Logan/Ogden Utah mission. I love service and humanitarian aid. Helping other people makes me so happy! My mission is to help journalists aid people in need. There is an abundance of discouraging news being reported and not enough being done by reporters and their companies to help those that the stories are about. After college I want to start a private nonprofit partnership with the news organization I work for called Journalists Initiative for Humanitarian Aid, or JIHAD. Jihad is an Arabic word, meaning "striving or struggling, especially with a praiseworthy aim." JIHAD will recruit working journalists as members and work together in their free time to give food, water, shelter, clothing, medical aid, education, job skills, and other necessary tools to those in need around the world.

I chose this name specifically because of my love for the Middle East and my wonderful friends from Syria that I met on my mission. They left Syria half a dozen years ago and have worked so hard to start over in America to have a better life for themselves and their children. They had a wonderful life in Syria. It is not right that people are displaced because of a war they have no involvement in. Homes and cities should not be destroyed because of that. I believe more needs to be done in these war-torn areas to preserve culture and establish peaceful governments. And it can start right here, all the way from Arizona!

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