Former Riverdale Press intern is college graduate

It was only two years ago when Sophia Romano of Riverdale interned for The Riverdale Press as she entered her junior year at Emerson College Journalism School in Boston, Massachusetts.

She was one of approximately 1,058 students who earned their undergraduate degree at Emerson in its 143nd commencement in Boston. Now she has her bachelor of science in journalism. When she interned, she said her interest was in investigation and that she is driven to call out wrongdoing in society.

She attended Ethical Culture Fieldston School, where  her journalism teacher introduced her to writing.

Eventually she picked it up and began writing for the Fieldston News and was editor in chief for the school’s music and gaming magazine. On top of that she participated in The New York Times summer academy in 2016.

During the commencement, the college honored four award-winning executives, innovators and alumni for their contributions and efforts to the arts, communication and greater humanity.

• Warner Bros. co-chair and chief executive Pamela Abdy
• Veteran Boston-based journalist Maghan Irons
• Emerson Kasteel Well executive director Dulcia Maijers
• Emerson trustee and former chair and vice president of Sunshine Wireless Jeffrey Greenhawt

All alumni received honorary Doctor of Humane Letter degrees.

Based near the heart of the city’s theatre district, Emerson also has institutions on Sunset Boulevard and even in Europe at its 14th century castle in the Netherlands.

The college has 4,161 undergraduates and 554 graduate students from across the states and nearly 70 countries. There are 117 student organizations and there were more than 1,900 student organization events in 2022.