Riane Roldan
Riane Roldan is a Miami native and a rising senior at Emerson College in Boston, where she is the news editor at the student newspaper, The Berkeley Beacon.
This summer, she looks forward to returning to her hometown and finally having some of her abuela’s pastelitos de guayaba. Always an avid reader, Riane is most content when she has herself, a book and an open space to let her imagination roam. After considering careers in Egyptology, professional tennis playing and law, she realized journalism would allow her to do all three (sort of). But it wasn’t until working at the student newspaper at Miami Dade College, The Reporter, that her passion for the penned-profession was truly solidified. Since then, she’s interned at The Medill Justice Project, transferred to Emerson College, and landed a spot at the New York Times Student Journalism Institute.
At WLRN, she looks forward to covering issues of identity, race and ethnicity, and social justice while telling the stories of the crazy, sunshine-filled city she calls home.
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Louisville Metro Police say four people were killed and eight hospitalized after a gunman attacked a bank.
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WLRN interns spent some time this summer looking at how the idea of gender is changing in South Florida. This story is part of their project. At a...
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They call themselves the coral whisperers: a global band of scientists working together to save the world's coral reefs.
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While South Florida continues to have the highest rates of new HIV diagnoses in the country, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and... -
In a unanimous vote at the Miami-Dade County Commission meeting on Tuesday, concession workers at Miami International Airport were included in the... -
The Everglades Foundation is kicking off a campaign to include the Everglades Reservoir in this year’s federal Water Resources Development Act bill. The... -
Broward Judge Elizabeth Scherer set a tentative trial timeline Monday afternoon for the confessed gunman in the Parkland school massacre. The court's... -
Since last Friday, at least three people have died in Haiti in riots that left parts of the city burned and pillaged. The unrest is due to a massive...
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Who makes the best Cuban sandwich in South Florida? It’s a seemingly simple question, with decades of history— and an equally long rivalry —behind it.... -
In the bid to build a soccer stadium and sports complex in Miami, developers have set their sites on a larger location: a city-owned municipal golf...
