Digital Reporter. Mikhala graduated from the prestigious S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University in 2021, receiving a master’s degree in Broadcast and Digital Journalism. Before that, she attended San Diego State University, where she received her bachelor’s degree in theater with an emphasis in performance and a minor in journalism. Mikhala is from Oakland, and is passionate about stories that uplift, inform, and create conversation that sparks change in communities that need to be heard.