My Bio

My name is Kanitra. I was born in Silver Spring, MD and moved to Tennessee while I was still quite young. Even though I didn't live in Maryland long my experiences with people of different ethnic backgrounds provided the template for my easy acceptance of embracing people and their ideas. I graduated from Bolton High School many years ago and began my college career. I was going to school to be a nurse but I ended up switching my major to journalism. I know it's strange that I went from one end of the spectrum to the other but so far things have been working out better than I anticipated. I've always loved to write. When I was younger I used to write stories that were similar to the age appropriate books that I would read at the time. I also kept a diary/journal. Writing in my journal gave me the opportunity to pour out my heart about any and everything and not have to worry about being judged. It is also therapeutic in a sense. Sometimes my thoughts have a tendency to roam across my mind much like the news on the CNN ticker so I write to release my thoughts and ease my mind.

I view journalism and it's purpose much like a massive sequoia tree. Journalism has many branches, no pun intended, that one could consider as entertainment, fluff, and sometimes just outrageous lies that don't serve an important purpose in one's life. However, the one thing that keeps journalism rooted is the truth. When you get to the essence of what journalism is about it's just that simple. People want to be informed of what's going on in their neighborhood, city, state, country, and world. The truth anchors journalism like the roots of the sequoia. The roots provide the strength and basis for the different avenues that journalism has taken over the decades and the truth is what will sustain journalism for decades to come.