Editor’s Note: The reporter, Jayce Carral, worked with Angelica Relente for several semesters at The Daily Evergreen.
Angelica Relente remembers walking into a conference in Seattle, Washington, along with 10 other brown students from Waipahu High School in Hawaii. The people and booths all blur together, but she remembers knowing, in that moment, she was meant to be a journalist, even if she did not know why at the time.
Relente’s epiphany was further cemented by her high school journalism teacher Daryn Kakazu, who was a father figure to Relente. She said she believed him when he told her he saw a bright future in her.