Introduction

Nikki Brown is a 22 year old, senior broadcast journalism major at South Dakota State University. She grew up in Brookings, but hopes to move on to bigger and brighter cities after graduation, possibly in the Denver, Colorado area. Besides being a full time student, she works part time at Perkins Restaurant and Bakery as a server and was recently promoted to a Certified Trainer position. She has also just begun an internship at Brookings Radio as their new news intern.

Nikki is an only child, growing up with her mother in Brookings. She attended Medary Elementary for her early education, moving on to the shiny new Mickelson Middle School in the sixth grade. By far she enjoyed high school the most, finding her passion for news and writing on the high school's newspaper staff. After she graduated in 2007, she decided to pursue a degree in Journalism. She wasn't sure where she wanted to go at first, but decided that SDSU would be the perfect place for her.

She's had a few jobs over the years, they include a market surveyor at a telephone call center, a housekeeper at a hotel, and a front desk clerk at another hotel.

Brown is taking a few interesting classes this semester. She decided to take French for her last semester and after the first week of class, is seeming to be a fairly difficult class. In previous years, she took German for her degree and often finds herself answering questions in German rather than French.