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Portrait of Adetoni Odejimi

Honor Society® member

Adetoni Odejimi

Reporting Intern at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

  • Georgia State University
  • Journalism
  • Class of 2024
  • Suwanee, Georgia

Member since March 2022

About

Hi! I'm Toni Odejimi, a junior at Georgia State University majoring in journalism and minoring in political science. During my time at Georgia State, I have gotten involved in the National Association of Black Journalists, a professional organization tasked with helping the next generation of Black journalists thrive. I have also worked on the student paper, for Howard University, and the state's largest paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. I love learning about reporting, policy and societal issues.

Before my time at GSU, I was a Girl Scout for 14 years!

Education

  • georgia state university

    multimedia journalism

    2021 – 2024

Goals and interests

Career goal

I would first want to start out perfecting my reporting by staying in Atlanta. Getting on the politics desk and getting familiarized with how Georgia politics works would help me tremendously on the national desk.

After that, I would love to transition into covering the Southeast as a whole, and how the actions here are setting the stage for larger issues nationally. From there, I would become a White House correspondent.

Graduate school interests

If I were to go to grad school, my main interests would be on honing in on policy reporting. Going to the White House, interacting with the community and delving into how policy directly and indirectly impacts citizens would be what I would focus on.

I would love to do a project on the effects of the housing market and how that has disproportionately affected Black communities, and what policies are, or are not, being passed down to help alleviate the situation.

Outside the classroom

Outside of work and studies, I love to write fiction, go for walks, indulge in the art of fashion and watch television.

Experience

  • Reporting Intern

    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    Jun 2023 – Aug 2023

  • Correspondent

    Howard University News Service

    Nov 2022 – Dec 2022

  • Staff Writer

    Her Campus Media

    Aug 2022 – Dec 2022

  • News Reporter

    The Signal

    Aug 2022 – Feb 2023

  • Intern

    The Atlanta Voice

    May 2022 – Jul 2022

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