In 2008 the Hinckley Institute of Politics teamed up with the Li Ka-shing Foundation in Hong Kong, China to send five students from the University of Utah and seven students from Shantou University in Shantou, China to work as student journalists during the 2008 presidential election. The students were led by Frank Folwell, former photography editor of "USA Today" and his wife Sherry Riccardi. The students attended both the Democratic and Republican Conventions. From there they traveled to Washington, D.C. where they established their headquarters in the offices of Policy Impact, a lobbying and public relations organization under the leadership of William Nixon (a Fellow of the Hinckley Institute of Politics).