La Voz News student journalists received awards for opinion stories, videos, an infographic about sexual assault and a student-designed at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges state convention in Burbank  March 22-24. Eleven De Anza students attended and participated in 50+ workshops by media professionals on current media topics.

Students received the following awards for work in La Voz News and Video La Voz from 2017:

• Second place: Kunal Mehta for the opinion story “Fight Nazis with peaceful condemnation, not punches.”
• Second place: Jack Molmud and Francisco Cardenas for the video “Humans of De Anza: Evan Garcia”
• Third place: Genevieve Kolar, Ana Acosta, Audrey Marques and Megan Wong for the infographic “Sexual assault and harassment survey”
• Fourth place: Jaerica Vitug for an advertisement for De Anza College Library’s Banned Book Week.
• Honorable mention: Jarra Gojolo and Francisco Cardeanas for the video “Parking at De Anza”
• Honorable mention: Neil McClintick for the editorial “De Anza Police should be more transparent”

La Voz, along with De Anza College, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.