Nayeli Jaramillo-Plata is a first-generation student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jaramillo likes to follow the money and focus on covering business stories and the ways that the economy and finances affect everyday life. She wants to make business-centered news accessible and digestible for all people, from various backgrounds.
Jaramillo has interned for Bloomberg News on the podcast team. Throughout her 10-week internship, she contributed to episodes on several podcasts, including The Odd Lots, In The City, Zero, and The Big Take. GrepBeat, where she wrote about tech startups, business owners and CEOs.
She has also written for her hometown newspaper, the Samson Independent, where she covered public health issues that affect the lives of Sampson County residents — from domestic violence rates to access to dental care. Jaramillo is the vice president of the NAHJ chapter at UNC, and has worked as a staffer at the independently run student newspaper, the Daily Tar Heel.