Our members endeavor to bring more people of color into the field of journalism. By bringing high school students and college underclassmen into the field, we hope to make journalism more representative of America's changing demographics. Too often, many people of color face different barriers as they attempt to enter the journalism field. We hope to cut down on the number of doors slammed in their faces, and we wish to encourage them to go farther. Through networking with both academics and professionals in the field of journalism, we hope to send more journalists of color into the media world.
Torres encourages anyone who has a minority background to come.
But, she said, membership is not limited to minorities. Anybody can come. Recent projects have included a Quark XPress workshop and putting together a newsletter for the Multicultural Resource Center. They also created a newsletter to send to alumni, a project that allowed students to work on various aspects of production, from copywriting to design. In addition, the group writes an editorial column for the University Daily Kansan once a week.