Teacher Spotlight: Mrs. Hutson
Teaching English 11 at Downey High School, filling students with motivation and creativity!
November 20, 2024
About the Contributors
Angelique Ventura, Multimedia Manager
Angelique Ventura, 12, returns for her second year at The Downey Legend as the team’s multimedia manager. Ventura is passionate about photography and enjoys being behind a camera. She realised this when she branched out from only being a student to getting more involved in school and taking classes like photojournalism. In the future, she hopes to incorporate her passion by majoring in journalism with an emphasis in media/photojournalism. For the past year, Vetura has learned a lot working with cameras and microphones to produce podcasts along with videos.
“It’s really helped me to learn how to ask and answer questions,” Ventura said. “It’s also helped me to go off script in a conversation and be less robotic.”
Tatiana Galindo, Photographer
Tatiana Galindo, 12, a first-year newspaper photographer, is excited to be a member of the Downey Legend crew and is ready to continue taking pictures and learning photographic skills, with a strong interest in film cameras. In addition to her love for photography, Galindo has aspirations of becoming a social worker. Galindo’s interests extend beyond the lens as she hopes to one day own a farm where she can raise a variety of animals, particularly pigs, her favorite. Galindo is a committed student aiming to graduate with gold cords, this year she hopes to be more involved in school activities. Aside from her academic and photographic interests, Galindo enjoys reading nonfiction books, baking, and playing with her three dogs.
“What I love the most about taking pictures is the idea of capturing a moment forever.” Galindo wants to put her photography skills to the test and capture memorable moments.
Michael Lopez, Social Media Manager
Social media manager Michael Lopez 12, starting his second year in Newspaper ready to tackle the world post-highschool, is a very academic student. Most proud of passing all his AP’s so far Lopez hopes to get into UCI for accounting to later get his CPA lisence. As he takes in the rest of his time on staff through being able to express himself creatively on our Instagram and learn how to network for his stories.
“That’s one thing I learned about in Newspaper, is that networking is really good” says Lopez, “because that way, you know, you meet everyone and see what everyone’s strengths are and how they can help you and how you can help them.”