Even though Sloane Berrent has moved out of Los Angeles and relocated to New Orleans, we still consider her one of us. Yesterday she was chosen out of 5 finalist candidates as the winner of the annual “MySpace Citizen Journalist” competition. Congrats Sloane! They couldn’t have picked a more deserving person. So what does this all mean for her?
She’ll get to travel next week to the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland as a special correspondent for MySpace, The Wall Street Journal and the World Economic Forum. As a part of the Davos press corps she will be using the MySpace platform to report on conference news and interview world leaders about issues relevant to the MySpace community, documenting her experience by blogging on MySpace and on the Wall Street Journal online.
She will also receive:
- Invitations to the Young Global Leaders opening conference and various media events
- Attendance at private meetings with editors from the Wall Street Journal and News Corp executives
- The opportunity to document the experience in written and video blogs on MySpace and the Wall Street Journal online
- Syndication of her MySpace blog via WSJ.com
“It has been a lifelong dream of mine to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos,” said Berrent. “It’s an incredible opportunity to report on world leaders and the future of the global economy. In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, I’d like to focus on the world’s role in the recovery effort. I’d also like to explore how economic development, specifically, microfinance and educational opportunity, play a role in changing the face of world economies and helping to break the poverty cycle.”
Sloane Berrent MySpace Journal Davos Submission
Sloane | MySpace Video
Wanna catch up with Sloane? She will be speaking at CalTech on March 2nd and is planning a tweetup around that time to get together with friends. Stay glued to her twitter account, @sloane, for more details.
Get to Know Her
Sloane Berrent – is the founder of Cause It’s My Birthday and creator of TheCausemopolitan.com, is a former Kiva Fellow and a young philanthropist. Through Cause It’s My Birthday – a fundraiser based on giving back versus giving birthday gifts – Berrent raised more than $19,000 to purchase malaria nets for distribution in northern Ghana. Berrent writes about her work in philanthropy and social entrepreneurship through TheCausemopolitan.com. She is a graduate of the University of Vermont and a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
