Zekriah Chaudhry

May 2016 360 Scholars

Zekriah Chaudhry is the 2018 ThreeSixty Scholar and an Emerging Media student at St. Thomas. He’s a journalism and political science double major at St. Thomas and continues his engagement with ThreeSixty as a volunteer writing coach and editor. Chaudhry has held reporting jobs with Tommie Media, Pioneer Press and MPLS/St. Paul Business Journal. During his sophomore year at St. Thomas, Chaudhry studied abroad in Rome, Italy. Chaudhry was a reporting intern for Star Tribune over the 2021 summer.

Chaudhry joined ThreeSixty in summer 2014 and participated in ThreeSixty throughout high school. He is a 2018 graduate of Minneapolis South High School.

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