SOAC Stories

Art of the Community for the Community

Written by Stockton University Graduate Ermioni Vlachidou, 2024

Tennyson Donyéa Speaks with Stockton Students: “Journalism is a Form of Advocacy”

Written by Stockton University Graduate Ermioni Vlachidou, 2024

TWELVE YEARS LATER: SISTER JEAN’S FOOD PANTRY

Written by SOAC Community Organizer/Content Editor Byonce Tyus, 2023

VOLUNTEERS UNITE TO FILL AC’S FOOD GAP: WESTMINISTER CHRISTIAN WORSHIP CENTER

Written by SOAC Community Organizer/Content Editor Byonce Tyus, 2022

C.R.O.P.S. GRAND OPENING SPURS CONVERSATION ON FOOD (IN)SECURITY

Written by SOAC Community Organizer/Content Editor Byonce Tyus, 2022

NAACP NATIONAL CONVENTION RETURNS TO ATLANTIC CITY

Stories written by SOAC interns Alison Hacker, Amanda Wallace, Ngoc Tran, Diana Marroquin, Charlize Deveza, and Ethen Reed, 2022

PUBLIC SEEKS ANSWERS FROM THE BOARD OF EDUCATION DURING RECENT MEETING

Written by SOAC Community Reporting Fellow Christina Walley, 2022

FOOD IS LOVE: CULTURE AND CARING

Written by SOAC Community Reporting Fellow Shalini Basu, 2022

A RAINBOW OF POSSIBILITIES

Written by SOAC Community Reporting Fellow Michelle Tomko, 2021

RESILIENT RESTAURANTS REMAIN OPEN IN ATLANTIC CITY

Stories by SOAC interns David Martin-Gonzalez, Samantha AppleLauren Simon, and Maggie Gibbons, 2021

AC COMPANY REDONKULOUS ENTERTAINMENT STRENGTHENS COMIC BOOK CULTURE, BREAKS BARRIERS

Written by Marissa Luca, former SOAC Multimedia Content Producer, 2021

AC ORGANIZATIONS DEPLOY NEW STRATEGIES TO HELP PEOPLE FACING HOMELESSNESS

By Marissa Luca, SOAC Multimedia Content Producer, 2021

PRIDE ON PARADE IN DRAG: CELEBRATING AC’S PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

By Lauren Simon, Stories of Atlantic City Correspondent, 2021

STOCKTON STUDENTS INTERVIEW AC ELDERS FOR SECOND ROUND OF INTERGENERATIONAL PROJECT

By Emily Montgomery, SOAC Multimedia Media Content Producer, 2021

KIERRA WALKER CONNECTS WITH STUDENTS, PARENTS, DESPITE DIGITAL DIVIDE

By Clyde Hughes, produced in partnership between SOAC and Front Runner New Jersey, 2021

CYCLES OF LIFE PUTS A COMMUNITY ON WHEELS

By Mariella Negro, Stories of Atlantic City Correspondent, 2021

PATTIE HARRIS: AC DANCE LEGEND

By Marissa Luca, Stories of Atlantic City Correspondent, 2021

UPRISINGS

By Christian Correa, SOAC Community Reporting Fellow, and Jonathan Gonzalez, 2021

REMEMBERING EARL HARVEY, AC MEDIA LEGEND

By Evan Sanchez, Co-Founder, Authentic City Partners, 2020

A MESSAGE FROM OUR NEW PART-TIME PROJECT MANAGER

By Christina Noble, SOAC Project Manager, 2020

ATLANTIC CITY RESIDENTS GATHER TO CELEBRATE COMMUNITY STORYTELLING

By Joe Amditis, associate director of the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University, 2019

THE ‘SEA’ GLASS IS HALF FULL

By Michelle Dawn Mooney, SJNtv, 2019

‘BEST BARBER IN THE WORLD’

By Bill Sprouse, Route 40 News, 2019

WHERE THE AMERICAN DREAMERS WORK

By Elinor Comlay, Route 40 News, 2019

WHEN BASEBALL WAS ATLANTIC CITY’S PASTIME

By Diane Stopyra, The Press of Atlantic City, 2019