Yvette Cuenco

by Bryant Tan


Yvette Cuenco, 16, calls Concord home where she attends Clayton Valley High School. There she is an editor for The Talon, which she considers to be an "eye-opening" newspaper. Among her many accomplishments, she is senior class social director, a Filipino folk dancer, and a member of the California Scholarship Federation.

In her temporary home at SF State, she "wants to learn what it's like to be a "real journalist." How does she accomplish this? She wakes up at 7:20 a.m., hustles to read the newspaper and eat simultaneously, and is enslaved for almost 13 hours each day until 9:30 p.m. "It shows what we'll be getting into," Cuenco said.


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