Juliana Brenner was born and raised in Santa Fe, N.M., and discovered her passion for journalism as a staff writer for Generation Next of the Santa Fe New Mexican. She is a rising senior at Barnard College of Columbia University where she studies English and Philosophy. She is also the Editor-In-Chief of CORE Impulse the online magazine for the Columbia University Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs. Juliana is a summer intern with Searchlight New Mexico.