Hello! My name is Ariana González and I am a journalism student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a Political Science and Journalism double major.
I moved to Massachusetts from Puerto Rico when I was 14 years old, a semester into my freshman year of high school. While this experience posed many challenges for me, it is the thing that got me into writing. I began writing more seriously when I moved to the United States as I tried to cope with the move, and understand the world around me.
My sophomore year of high school, I joined a pre-college summer program at Brown University where I was introduced to non-fiction narrative writing. From this program came my first essays. I mostly talked about my experience growing up and my culture.
This would later become a theme when I started studying at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a journalism student. My first articles written for the Daily Collegian were mostly about Hispanic culture and the Puerto Rican diasporic experience.
Throughout this time, I also began taking my first political science course on comparative politics. This class sparked a lot of new ideas that influenced my writing and I began to pursue Political Science as a secondary major.
Since I began school in 2021, I have developed a long list of works through my time interning for Amherst Media and El Mundo Boston and working for the Daily Collegian and WMUA News. I have also freelanced articles for the Pasquines publication, which focuses on highlighting news within the U.S. Territories.
Thank you for reading my about me page! Feel free to go through the tabs at the top of the website to browse through some of my work.
Ariana Gonzaléz' Portfolio 