Beena Raghavendran [insert photo] (/biːnə rɑːgəveɪndrən/, born 1993) is a student at the University of Maryland [link to website] studying journalism and government and politics. She was born in Irvine, California [link to Wikipedia page] and raised in Mason, Ohio [link to city website], just outside Cincinnati [link to website]. She has been a student journalist since 2009, serving positions as writer and editor and currently covers the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center [link to website] for The Diamondback [link to website], UMD’s student newspaper. She has interned with the Hamilton Journal-News [link to website], the Middletown Journal [link to website] and the Pulse-Journal [link to website] through Cox Media Group [link to Wikipedia] in Ohio. Beena has been involved in community, high school and college theater [link to photos of previous shows] since 2003. She is the daughter of Raj and Uma [link to photo], who immigrated to the U.S. from India [link to Wikipedia] in the 1980s.
