An Extra Ordinary Life: Cindy Stansbury

It’s five in the morning and Cindy Stansbury is starting off her morning, like she does every morning, with a run around Philadelphia. “I guess I’m kind of a meticulous person or a habitual person. I do the same thing every morning on the weekdays it’s my routine,” said Stansbury. Meticulous maybe, but many would consider that dedication to be very different than the average college student who is constantly hitting the alarm snooze button.

To many journalism is a business that is believed to be dying. However, students like Stansbury prove this misconception to be quite false. Stansbury’s passion for the news and reading has always been a part of her personality. “I like to pick up and read the free newspapers Temple provides in the dorms,” said Stansbury.

Stansbury, a journalism major and political science minor, has a big dream. “I want to write for Time. I’m a geek for that magazine. It’s always sitting on my kitchen table. I save copies of the magazine. It’s kind of a problem,” she joked. Stansbury has been preparing for her dream by writing for Temple’s sustainability magazine. Stansbury explained that by working, in this particular field of journalism, she was able to see a side of Philadelphia that many people don’t get to see. “I actually wrote a couple of pieces for Grid which is the sustainability magazine here. That’s a really interesting topic because you get to see a whole part of Philadelphia you don’t normally get to see,” said Stansbury. It’s not hard to tell that if Stansbury keeps up her mentality she is sure to take the world of journalism by storm.

By Molly Mulvihill