This First Person piece is written by Kyla Cassandra Cortez, who is a university student in Toronto. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
I was in elementary school when I decided I would become a journalist. After one workshop about print journalism, where we would practice writing news and feature articles, I was hooked. I was that kid who asked my father to turn on the television to watch the morning news, and he’d get mad because it would make me late for school.
Unfortunately, money got in the way. As I tried to convince my
