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.”