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 โMeet the Press: College Roundtable.โThe 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 Pedutoโs plans for police reform.
Peduto told the student journalists, โThe whole community has to be a partโ of police reform, and โItโs not just, write a check and walk away.โPernell is a news editor at Washington and Leeโs student newspaper, The Ring-tum Phi.