"The most delightful surprise": Kerisha Harris found her calling through Teen People's News Team

Kerisha Harris is a corporate communications professional from Paterson, New Jersey. In the early 2000s, Kerisha was a member of Teen People magazine’s News Team, a corps of young journalists from across the US. She has since worked as a journalist, and is currently working on a Master’s degree in public relations and corporate communications from Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies.

Teen People’s News Team gave young journalists some of their very first bylines, and prepared them for careers in media. "I have so much to be grateful for, about that experience," Kerisha told me.

Kerisha spoke with me from her home in Connecticut, where she told me about her involvement with her high school newspaper, and how that led her to Teen People’s News Team, and beyond.

Podcast Notes:

Watch Kerisha and her dad on her sister's podcast! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-ZCWPsATTM

Find me on Twitter and Instagram at teenpeoplepod, and on Tumblr at teenpeoplepod.tumblr.com. Have a listen to my interviews with other Teen People News Team members from season one of Teen People podcast! They are Lucas Peerman, Lisa Wong Macabasco, and Lindsay Soll Kirkman.

Credits:

Intro music by Coma-Media on Pixabay
Outro music by Lesfm on Pixabay

Teen People is recorded in Kingston/Katarokwi, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat.