Leah Traxel ‘14
Journalism Team Leader
A Communication major whose emphasis is Journalism, Leah is also an Anthropology minor who joined the MediaLab team in late 2011. She enjoys learning and writing about global issues and hopes to one day write for an international media organization. Since joining MediaLab, Leah’s writing and photographs have been published in Tacoma Weekly, the Peninsula Gateway, a McClatchy Co. newspaper in Gig Harbor, Wash., and Gig Harbor Life, a community–focused publication of the Kitsap Sun, a daily newspaper in Bremerton, Wash.
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Paul (Boo) Dodson ‘12
Journalism
Boo, a Political Science major with an emphasis in international relations, was selected to join MediaLab in Spring 2011. During the summer of 2011, he interned at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, where he served as a freelance correspondent for the Idaho Statesman. Prior to MediaLab, Boo was a political columnist for the Mooring Mast, PLU’s student newspaper, and spent a semester abroad at the University of Jordan studying Middle Eastern politics.
