Tyeesha Dixon

Tyeesha Dixon worked as a reporter at The Baltimore Sun from October 2007 to May 2009, covering Howard County cops and courts, as well as Anne Arundel County government. She is a 2007 graduate of the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. While a student at Maryland, she interned on the Sun's business desk, as well as at the Orlando Sentinel, where she worked as a Kaiser intern covering minority health. She is currently a student at Harvard Law School.

Her essay is on finding herself in her dream job, only to have it cut short.