Our Vision
Our vision is to enlighten audiences with real-life stories of successful people who have received refuge and aid from the services of Hello Neighbor. It is through spreading stories and awareness that we show our support with a helping hand and open arms to our new neighbors in the Pittsburgh area.
Meet Our Team
Abby Yoder
Editor-in-chief
As a junior multimedia major, this project and my individual role has challenged me in an exciting way. As the editor in chief of the Refugee Project. I have been able to gain an understanding of how to oversee a large project at whole.
Erin Yudt
Editor
Erin Yudt has spent her life inquiring about the world around her, using her personal and career experiences and curiosities to write and produce news for newspapers and broadcast stations in order to provide communities with important news happening around them.
Kylie Thomas
Lead Web Designer
Kylie Thomas (she/they) is a media content creator currently attending Point Park University as a senior with a multimedia major and photography minor. Kylie works as the lead web designer and photographer for The Refugee Report with a special focus in the area of personal refugee stories.
Alexis Wary
Photo Editor
Alexis Wary (she/her) is currently a senior who attends Point Park University where she studies journalism with a photography minor. She recently joined The Pittsburgh Foundation as a communications and marketing intern. She studied abroad for 5 months at The University of Salford in Manchester, UK.
Hannah Buzza
Video Coordinator
Hi! My name is Hannah Buzza and I am a sophomore journalism student at Point Park University. I am heavily involved in U-View Television where I host and produce one show and report on two others! I also occasionally write for Point Park’s newspaper, The Globe, and have been published a handful of times.
Winnie Bobbitt
Writer
Winnie Bobbitt has been writing stories for as long as she can remember, those of which always featured powerful, career-focused female characters that she herself deeply aspired to be like one day. At eight years old, instead of playing flashlight tag outside with her friends on cool, summer evenings, Winnie was up in her bedroom, playing with words.
RaeLynn Crawford
writer
Currently, I am in my junior year at Point Park University as a Journalism major. I was looking for a more open community and social environment when I transferred from Ithaca College to Point Park. I have learned many different things throughout the school of communications and within the journalism world.
Anthony Cugini
writer
My name’s Anthony Cugini and I’m a sophomore journalism major at Point Park University. I’ve been writing news articles for almost four years. I’ve been covering the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pittsburgh Penguins for Point Park’s student run newspaper “The Globe” for two years.
Riley Sanguini
Writer
Riley Sanguigni is a sophomore broadcast journalism major at Point Park University. Her purpose in this project is to let the refugees share serious and lighthearted stories about their new lives here in Pittsburgh. Her goals are to tell positive, enriching and positive stories about people who have found themselves as refugees in Pittsburgh.
Dustin Schlagel
writer
Hello! My name is Dustin Schlagel. I am currently in my sophomore year at Point Park University, where I am majoring in Journalism and Communications. To break myself down as a journalist, I would like to consider myself a “jack of all trades.”
Caitlyn Scott
writer
Caitlyn Scott has become an inquisitive radio journalist and newspaper editor inside and outside of her college career. Recently being offered a position at her hometown radio station, WJPA 95.3 FM radio in Washington, Pennsylvania and formally being Co-News Editor for Point Park University’s newspaper, The Globe, Scott has gained experience in both the realm of audio and print writing.
Laci Staines
writer
Laci Staines, a senior photojournalism major at Point Park University aims to deliver truthful, thorough, and unbiased reporting. She has been taking photos since she was a teenager and believes that each photograph captures a specific moment in time that is nearly impossible to recreate.
August Stephens
writer/photographer
August Stephens (he/they) is a sophomore Honors Journalism student with a Photography minor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the Opinions Editor for The Globe, Point Park University’s student-run, independent newspaper, and the Assistant General Manager of the university’s radio-station, WPPJ 670. As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, Stephens represents the Gender Sexuality Spectrum Alliance as Secretary.
Christopher Rolinson
Advisor
While a student in the Slippery Rock University Art Department, Christopher Rolinson discovered his passion for photography after a tour of duty in the U.S. Army. He merged fine art photography with communication and politics. Upon graduation, he practiced photojournalism in rural Ohio and western Pennsylvania.