christina van waasbergen
				
								major / minor: journalism and political science
												graduation year: 2023
				
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				christina van waasbergen is an accelerated master’s student at northwestern university’s medill school of journalism, completing both the final year of her bachelor’s degree with a double major in journalism and political science as well as a master’s in journalism with a specialization in politics, policy and foreign affairs concurrently. christina covers politics for the medill news service. she previously reported for the daily northwestern, spent a quarter covering immigration for the medill news service as an undergraduate and completed a journalism residency in phoenix, arizona covering health issues for the arizona republic.