Tessa Muggeridge is currently a Phoenix-based digital and print journalist studying at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

She expects to graduate in May of 2011 with two bachelor's degrees in digital journalism and Spanish, respectively. She will also graduate with a Master's degree in Mass Communication with an emphasis in digital media.

Tessa is a bilingual digital and print journalist who believes in the power journalistic words can have in amplifying the silenced, exposing injustice and catalyzing change. The pen is the mightiest of all swords.

Tessa has worked for several news outlets in the Phoenix area, including ASU's 15,000-circulation daily newspaper The State Press and The Arizona Republic. She has covered beats ranging from cops and courts to breaking news.

Tessa has also worked as a news editor managing as many as 25 reporters and also as a copy editor. Additionally, Tessa has worked as the non-fiction editor of a creative literary magazine.

Outside of the journalism field, she works for a Sacramento-based nonprofit organization called Sierra Service Project doing home repair work on American Indian reservations in the U.S., in Mexico and in Honduras with junior high and high school students.

She enjoys the television show Lost , raspberries, going on adventures and eating ice cream for breakfast