Kai Sanchez Avila is the 2019 ThreeSixty Scholar and an Emerging Media major at St. Thomas. During the 2019-20 school year at St. Thomas, Sanchez Avila hosted “Kai-POP,” a K-pop show, on KUST radio. She hopes to continue doing the show throughout her ongoing Emerging Media studies. Sanchez Avila also received the Mark and Mary Davis Horatio Alger Scholarship. In fall 2020, she interns with TommieMedia, an award-winning web-based news organization serving the St. Thomas community. Sanchez Avila is a member of the 2019 class of Hiawatha Collegiate High School.
ThreeSixty Focus on . . . Star Tribune Media Critic Neal Justin
At a time when the president of the United States labels many media organizations as the enemy, Neal Justin fights for adolescents to share their… Read More
Menthol Tobacco Used to Prey on Youth
Everybody knows smoking is bad for you. But have you ever thought about how menthol-flavored cigarettes are potentially more dangerous than regular ones? Especially for… Read More
Mental illness in K-pop: Learning from a music star’s apparent suicide
Disclaimer: I wrote this story in memory of Kim Jong-hyun because I’ve also had that feeling of depression and been told to “suck it up,”… Read More
K-pop and me: A reluctant love story
It all began with a love-hate relationship between me and K-pop, ?a subculture of music that comes from South Korea. This genre has been influenced… Read More
Student seeks new opportunity at Dougherty Family College: St. Thomas two-year school offers low-income students a chance at college
Safiya Mohamed contributed to this story. Kelly Ordonez Saybe didn’t get into her first college choice, the University of St. Thomas. Saybe, 18, had other… Read More
College Essay: ‘A rainbow of identities’
I felt like I was in a whole new world. This was the first time I was attending a Pride event. I stopped by a… Read More
