Kenna Jenkins

About Me

I'm attending Citrus College to get my associate degree in computer science and journalism before transferring to a 4-year university in 2025.

I'm currently the editor-in-chief of Citrus' student newspaper the Clarion and the 2024-25 student president of the Journalism Association of Community Colleges.

Some of my work

Two new members to join Citrus board of trustees after election

This year, three members of Citrus’ Board of Trustees are up for re-election, but two of them are not staying for another term.


Mary Ann Lutz and Patricia Rasmussen will not be running for re-election this fall and Laura Bollinger is running uncontested.


Candidates running for Area No. 5



Three candidates are running for Lutz’s position as Area No. 5 trustee, which represents Monrovia, Bradbury and portions of Duarte: Vickie Villegas, Randa Wahbe and Fernando Villegas.


Vickie Villega...

Bloody revenge is coming to Citrus

Stephen King’s 1974 novel “Carrie” has spawned many adaptations: four movies, one television special, one spoof and an unauthorized parody. And of course “Carrie: The Musical.”


Renee Liskey, the director of the show and one of Citrus’ dance faculty, said the show has a history of “being a flop” so a lot of people stay away from it.


The musical originally opened on May 12, 1988, at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois.



It closed three days later after 16 previews and five shows,...

Union Understanding: Citrus’ reserve fund remains point of contention

A point of contention in the negotiations for a new California School Employees Association agreement has been Citrus’ reserve fund.

The California Community College Chancellor’s Office said a reserve is funds a college sets aside for “an unanticipated decline in revenue or an increase in expenditures.”

Cathy Day, a classified employee who has been working at Citrus for the past 24 years, said in an interview with the Clarion she didn’t understand how Citrus’ reserve fund could stay so large w

Union Understanding: Staff union reaches tentative agreement with District

After months of contention, the California School Employees Association and the Citrus district reached a tentative agreement on a new contract on May 6.

The California School Employees Association is the union that represents Citrus’ classified employees. Classified employees are those working at Citrus who do not fall under the category of either faculty, like professors, or administration.

During the Board of Trustees meeting on March 19, two of Citrus’ classified employees spoke about thei

Video: Associated Students of Citrus College 2024 Candidates’ Forum

The Associated Students of Citrus College Candidates’ Forum took place at 11:30 a.m. on April 24 in the Campus Center Mall of Citrus College.

Eden Yang, one of the two candidates for vice president, spoke as well as three of the five candidates for student trustee, Jonathan Johnson, Hina Furuyama and Samuel Castillo.

ASCC advisor Rosario Garcia (right) asked the 2024 candidates a set of 13 questions for those in the audience.

1. Please share your name, major, the position you are running for,
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The challenge to take a pause

Pizzagate was a QAnon conspiracy theory that rose in online popularity during the 2016 election. The theory led to threats to harm and kill those viewed as enemies and prompted a gunman to storm into a pizza parlor in Washington, D.C.

Elizabeth Cook, an instructional design librarian at Citrus College’s Hayden Memorial Library, recalls this as one of her pivotal moments in observing the rampant spread of misinformation and disinformation in America.

Cook taught fake news seminars at the librar

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