Angela Hart ’14 Selected for White House Correspondents Association Scholarship

Angela Hart with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama

We are pleased to announce Angela Hart (’24) as the selected recipient for this year’s White House Correspondents Association Student Scholarship. Since 2012, the WHCA has supported one of our students with a $5,000 award.

Angela attended the WHCA dinner in Washington D.C. in April to receive her scholarship. She also attended a luncheon for all the WHCA scholarship recipients, and had the opportunity to meet President Obama.

US Army Veteran Angela Hart is a print and multimedia journalist who covers the environment, health care and her particular passion: politics. A proponent of what she describes as ‘explanatory journalism,’ Angela connects policy and politics to the lives of ordinary people. While currently pursuing a master’s degree at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, her thesis project investigates how the Affordable Care Act may leave behind many of the neediest Americans living in the Bay Area. In the past year she has reported on the 2012 election, city finance, and home foreclosures in Oakland’s poorest neighborhoods. She has written for The Oakland Tribune, The San Francisco Press, The Huffington Post’s ‘Patch.com’ and a local web publication, Oakland North.
While deployed in Iraq, Julia’s Military Police unit was one of the first on the ground to move from the Baghdad area into the Balad, in the Sunni Triangle.

Visit the WHCA website to see Angela’s photo with the President and First Lady and learn more about the WHCA’s scholarships and recipients for this year.