When she opens a preschool assignment she's kept for all these years, Divya sees the question, "What do you want to do when you grow up?" and her answer: a "hair cutter." Seems like a far cry from journalism, right? Not to Divya, who points out that getting a hair cut is a great way to hear stories - and stories are the reason she was drawn to journalism. In fact, she worried herself in highschool because she spent more time working on the student newspaper than studying for her classes. And though she tried to suppress that same interest later in college, fate would hear of no such thing - Divya was always meant to do this, and now proudly covers higher education and nonprofits as a journalist for the Tampa Bay Times. Asked why she thinks her job is important, Divya provides a simple but compelling answer: "to create empathy." And don't we all need more of that these days?