Duvasana Bisoondial
SA国际传谋 News InternDuvasana Bisoondial is a spring 2025 intern for SA国际传谋. She is a junior at Florida International University where she studies digital journalism, history, and women鈥檚 and gender studies.
She aspires to become an investigative journalist and hopes to highlight the voices of minority communities that make up American society.She currently serves as the managing editor of Caplin News, FIU鈥檚 publication run by journalism students, since May 2024. She is also the vice president of FIU鈥檚 chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and was formerly the entertainment writer of Panther Now, the college student newspaper.
In her spare time, she enjoys reading books of different genres and watching Indian movies, both old and new.
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Ruth鈥檚 List Florida, an influential statewide progressive political fundraising group, is hosting a conference April 26 in Miami, bringing together elected officials, community leaders and activists to promote and raise campaign dollars for Democratic pro-choice women in state and local offices. -
Budget cuts to the USDA, as part of President Donald Trump鈥檚 effort to reduce federal spending through billionaire Elon Musk鈥檚 DOGE activities, have hit deliveries of food to the Salvation Army of Broward County. -
For nearly five months, Angela Terrell never saw a penny from her unemployment payments. She still hasn鈥檛. She quickly found herself in a financial crisis, relying on family to pay her rent and bills for her apartment in the Little River neighborhood. -
Two local progressive groups are planning protests Saturday in South Florida in opposition to Trump administration policies and Elon Musk鈥檚 massive layoffs in leading the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. -
Iranian Shabnam Kamoii, who goes by Shab, has become one of the fastest-rising global pop stars in the West. In South Florida, she told SA国际传谋 how at age eight she fled alone to Germany to escape the dangers of the Iran-Iraq war. -
After the excavation of Tequesta artifacts at the Miami River, two city residents passionate about local history started a project to educate others about the city鈥檚 Indigenous history. -
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, will be bringing Don Williams, a veteran and member of the Social Security Administration staff, as her guest to President Donald Trump鈥檚 State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night. -
After a federal judge in Washington blocked the Trump administration from freezing federal grants and loans potentially totaling trillions of dollars last week, many disability rights organizations wonder what's next. -
To mark the 61-year anniversary of the Beatles playing at Miami Beach's Deauville Hotel, John Lennon鈥檚 former lover Mary Pang is curating an exhibit filled with candid shots she captured of the superstar throughout their 18-month relationship. -
Hours after the Florida Legislature passed one of the nation鈥檚 strictest immigration bills, Hernan, a college student from central Florida, found himself in a state of anxiety and paranoia. His biggest worry: paying his college tuition.
