Team Fresh Faces – Yolanda Altamirano

Meet the team! Members of the 2008-09 Unleashed crew are charged with serving as the eyes and ears of their campuses, communities and generation. Their job is to document issues and ideas, events, people, places and things that are important to today’s young people, particularly the young people in Central Washington. This group — the 10th since Unleashed started in 1999 — has been writing, photographing and creating illustrations since May. Their stories, columns, reviews, photographs and works of art appear in the pages of the Yakima Herald-Republic as well as on the Unleashed blog at unleashed.yakimablogs.com. Here’s a chance to get to know them a little better.

Yolanda Altamirano
Eisenhower, 16, junior
Favorite subject: English.
Favorite Activities: Hanging out with friends, reading, listening to music, traveling.
Favorite food: I can’t choose.
Favorite music: MGMT, of Montreal, The Beatles, Sigur Ros. … it tends to change weekly.
Favorite films: “Pride and Prejudice,” “Edward Scisssorhands,” “Help!” and many more.
Favorite books: I can’t choose.
Three words to describe yourself: Perceptive, kind, pessimistic.
Greatest achievement: No idea.
If you could leave tonight on an all-expenses-paid trip, where would you go? London, because I think it’d be amazing over there.
What would you do with $1 million? Travel the world, and donate the rest.
If you could meet anyone, who would you choose? Any great American author so that I can ask him or her why he or she wrote such complex stories and then have him or her tell me what those stories are supposed to mean.
Who is your hero? Christopher McCandless, because he had the courage I’ll probably never have.
Biggest fear: Spiders.
Greatest wish: I’ve never thought about this. To be happy all my life? I don’t know.
When and where were you the happiest? Probably anywhere with my family.
Most treasured possession: I don’t have one.
Favorite place in your hometown: I don’t have one.
How do you see yourself in 10 years? Busy, still in school, not living in Washington.
Why do you want to be on Unleashed? For experience in journalism. And I wanted to meet new people.