annie.nelson@stthomas.edu
(651) 962-5269
Annie Nelson has both teaching and professional journalism experience. A Minnesota native and journalism graduate of the University of Missouri, she has tutored reading students ranging from 7-year-old first graders to 62-year-old men. She worked for two and a half years as a reporter for the Columbia Daily Tribune in Columbia, Mo. She is fluent in Spanish and reported for the nation’s only bilingual Spanish English student newspaper, Adelante!, during college. She has traveled to Latin America multiple times, including a semester she spent studying abroad in Havana, Cuba.
She was the local/national news editor at St. Paul Central Senior High School’s paper her senior year. She graduated from Central in 2000.
“My attitude is teens can do anything they decide they can do … My goal with the ThreeSixty students is to get them to stop thinking of themselves as students, stop discounting their abilities and go out there and get the story.”
