“Service to Stony Brook” is Rebecca Anzel’s capstone project for her major as a journalism student at Stony Brook University. Rebecca spent about seven weeks during the Spring 2016 semester speaking with student veterans at SBU and the people employed there to make sure they succeed for this piece about what it is like pursuing a higher education after serving in the military.
Rebecca Anzel is majoring in journalism with a concentration in online media at Stony Brook University on Long Island in New York.
Anzel interned at the Scripps Howard Foundation Wire in Washington, D.C. from September to December 2015. She served as the editor-in-chief and president of Statesman Association Inc., the oldest media organization at SBU, the previous year. Anzel also worked as a graphic designer for SBU’s Department of Sustainability & Transportation Operations.
In her sophomore year, she traveled to the Turkana area in Kenya for two weeks with 16 classmates to report on one of Earth’s last frontiers. The 32-hour flight from JFK airport to Lodwar, Kenya, was her first, and the adventure in Africa – serving as a foreign correspondent – instilled in Anzel the desire to travel.
In her free time, she experiments with new tea blends or coffee roasts, looks for new restaurants to try or shops for a new watch.