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    • Viviana Bonilla López

    School: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

    Year: Sophomore

    Hometown: San Juan, Puerto Rico

    College activities: Vice-President of Publicity for UNC-CH’s Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Mentor for “Rethink: Psychiatric Illness,” an original project aimed at raising awareness about mental illnesses that receives funding from UNC-CH’s Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence.

    How do you see the evolution of the newspaper in the next five years?

    Multimedia. Everywhere.

    Five reasons you love your school

    1. “If God isn’t a Tar Heel, then why is the sky Carolina blue?”
    2. The School of Journalism and Mass Communication
    3. Our rivalry with “Dook”
    4. Six Basketball National Championships
    5. All UNC students know the Alma Mater and 50% are wearing Carolina Blue on any given day

    One of the most quirky things about you is…

    I still watch Disney Channel quite religiously.

    What was the last (non-required) book that you read?

    “Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis” by Rosalynn Carter

    What was the first thing that you wanted to be when you grew up?

    In the third grade I wrote in an assignment that I wanted to be a “Grammy-winning actress.” How exactly I planned to win a musical award for work in the film industry, I am not quite sure.

    What is the most interesting article you’ve ever written?

    To date, my favorite journalistic experience was reporting on the anti-Obama protests that occurred during the president’s recent visit to Puerto Rico. The article was cited in a report to the United Nations by the National Lawyers Guild and I got to experiment with multimedia and write articles in two languages. Tied for second are a Daily Tar Heel article on a national, campus Chick-fil-A boycott and a feature story on a notorious “mall rapper,” who sings to customers in the largest shopping mall in Puerto Rico.