Angelina Hicks

 

Angelina Hicks graduated from Chapman University in 2023 and the University of Southern California in 2024. She’s an award-winning journalist reporting for Voice of OC, a nonprofit, independent news outlet in Orange County, CA. She’s been writing and reporting on local government agencies for Voice of OC since 2020, as an undergraduate.

 

She first began as a news intern with Voice of OC, eventually getting hired as the inaugural Tracy Wood Fellow. She’s currently the Collegiate News Service Editor, overseeing Voice of OC's partnership with Chapman University. As part of her role, Hicks mentors high school and college students, working with them as they get started covering Orange County municipalities and editing their work for publication on Voice of OC. She also writes and reports her own stories, primarily covering south Orange County cities, issues along the coastline and issues involving animal care and animal shelters.

 

At Chapman, Hicks teaches the core journalism courses within Wilkinson College, including Theory and Practice of Journalism and Reporting, News Reporting and Writing Workshop and Advanced Reporting and Editing Workshop for Journalists.

 

Hicks has won awards from the Orange County Press Club, the California News Publishers Association and the Society of Professional Journalists for her work. Notably, she won a first-place award for Public Service Journalism and a first-place award for In-Depth Reporting from the California News Publishers Association 2024 California Journalism Awards. She’s been published in the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune and the New York Amsterdam News in addition to her work with Voice of OC.