Bianca Parks

Disclaimer: While place descriptions and news events may coincide with the real world, all characters and the plot are fictional. 
== Biography ==
=== Early Years ===
Bianca Park's family live in Gresham, east of Portland.
=== Education ===
==== Book 2: Choose ====
On Monday October 12, 2020 Lam Deng mentions that Bianca is a sophomore (2nd year) student.
In Winter 2021, she has a political science class on Wednesday evenings.
=== Eyewitness News ===
==== Book 1: Stories We Tell ====
Bianca Parks is the main anchor for the EWN television news. 
==== Book 2: Choose ====
Lam Deng says that EWN will be lucky to keep Bianca for another term, she's been getting offers from all the stations downtown. He hope's she is smart enough to stay and get her degree before moving to the big time.
On Thursday October 15, 2020 Cage Washington asks Ryan Matthews to record an introduction for the broadcast, and Bianca wonders how Ryan can do that so well off the cuff
On Friday October 16, Bianca introduces J.J.'s first solo breaking-news piece, and reads Carroll's tweet on-air as a voice-over.
==== Book 3: Don't Go ====
When Cage returns to EWN at 11pm on Wednesday, October 21 and talks about the start of the ICE protest in 2018, Bianca stands behind Lam and listens in. Cage interviewed some of the protesters about ICE agents tearing down students' posters from an adjacent school fence. The protesters plan to meet on Saturday to make new posters. Cage says before he edits the interviews, EWN needs to decide if they will cover the ICE protest. Lam asks why wouldn't they, when they've been covering the BLM protests downtown. Emily Andersen replies that Ryan had made the argument to PSU administration that downtown was 'in their neighborhood', but the ICE facility is further out. Joanna Montgomery says ICE is closer to PSU than the Moda Center sports arena on the other side of the river, and they cover all PSU sports played there. Lam comments that EWN prides itself on its diversity, but they are much more diverse than Portland is. Before they take on ICE, they need to make sure their own staff is protected from pushback. His family have been in the USA for generations, and he's in favor of the coverage, but he thinks they need to warn their staff first. Bianca tells of a friend who was adopted from China as a baby, and ICE is deporting her as her parents had never applied for her citizenship. Her parents are going to China with her so they can apply for her citizenship from there, as you have to be outside the country to apply. Bianca would like to do her story, but until then hadn't really thought of it as news.
When Emily calls Ryan on Monday, October 26, 2020 she mentions that Bianca has turned in her first immigration piece with her friend who is being deported to China, and is calling the series 'Faces of Immigration'. She wants approval to interview Miguel Garcia, and Ryan tells her to go ahead.
At the meeting in the EIC office the next afternoon, Ben mentions that Professor Cooper is helping Bianca Parks with silhouette interviews for her Dreamer series. Following the special session of the Media Board that evening to approve Emily and Cage as joint acting Editors-in-Chief, Cooper asks Ryan if he knows about the story Bianca is doing. Ryan nods and thanks Cooper for helping her.
==== Book 4: Hold Me ====
* Tuesday December 1, 2020 - 12:30pm?: Bianca arrives at EWN to Emily telling staff that the COVID outbreak started with the tournament in Boise. Bianca Parks asks why PSU were playing basketball in Boise during a pandemic? Emily tells her that's a good question and to find the answer. When Ben says that he doesn't think any sports reporters were at EWN during the broadcast the night before, Bianca agrees she hadn't seen any either. 
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During the COVID surge in December 2020, she is promoted to assistant station manager.
== Physical Appearance ==
Bianca is a talented and beautiful 20-year-old Black and Latina woman. She is fairly short with curves, and very photogenic.
== Personality ==
=== Book 2: Choose ===
Lam Deng describes Bianca as coming "across on the screen like she's talking directly to you, and if you just broke the code it would be the time and place to meet up for something hot and sexy".
Favorite phrase: "Suck it up, buttercup."
== Relationships ==
== Residence ==
Bianca has a room in one of the residence halls at PSU.
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