The Connecticut Mirror is welcoming four interns this summer, each with a different role: news reporting, data reporting, photojournalism and audience engagement.

Reporting Intern Janhavi Munde of Wesleyan University will report and write stories about Connecticut politics and public policy, while Data Reporting Intern Sasha Allen of the University of Maryland will use data analysis and visualization to report stories and assist other staff members with their reporting.

Photojournalism Fellow Dana Edwards of Columbia University will tell visual stories about the impact of public policy on individuals and communities in Connecticut.

And Audience Engagement Intern Daniel Brugger of Wesleyan University will create social media content — including Instagram slides, videos and Reddit posts — and produce weekly newsletters.

“One of my absolute favorite parts of summer is that we have summer interns. In my opinion, it’s so much easier to learn when you’re working in the newsroom every day, and I am always so impressed with the progress our interns make,” said Housing & Children’s Issues Reporter Ginny Monk, who serves as CT Mirror’s internship coordinator. “This summer, we have four great interns from across the Northeast. I’m confident they’ll do fantastic work.”

Learn more about CT Mirror’s summer 2025 interns below:

Sasha Allen

Sasha is a data reporting intern with The Connecticut Mirror through the Dow Jones News Fund. She graduated from the University of Maryland in May with a degree in journalism and a minor in creative writing. For the past year Sasha was working part time for the Herald-Mail, a newspaper based in Western Maryland. She was also a reporter and copy editor for Capital News Service, the university’s wire service where she covered the state legislature, the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse, school board elections, youth mental health and climate change. Earlier in her college career, Sasha also interned at the Baltimore Magazine and wrote for numerous student publications including the Diamondback, the university’s independent, student-run newspaper.

Daniel Brugger

Daniel is CT Mirror’s audience engagement intern. Originally from Princeton, New Jersey, Daniel is a rising senior at Wesleyan University and will graduate in May 2026 with a double major in English and Theater. Daniel served as a social media manager for the Wesleyan Theater Department and as a literary management intern for a New York-based dramaturg and theater producer. He is passionate about ensuring broad information accessibility and exploring ways in which social media can connect people.

Dana Edwards

Dana is CT Mirror’s visuals fellow. Dana is a photojournalist, filmmaker, and print reporter. He is a recent graduate of Columbia Journalism School, where he covered housing and gentrification in Brooklyn and hurricane relief in Western North Carolina. He also co-directed a documentary film about a proposed casino development in Coney Island and covered Columbia’s campus protests as a freelance photographer. He previously wrote investigations for The Stanford Daily as an undergraduate and features articles for the San Francisco Chronicle as an intern and freelancer. His photographs have been published in Reuters, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, NBC, Al Jazeera, New York Magazine, PBS, San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. He is passionate about bringing all kinds of stories to life through humanizing and deeply reported visual journalism. One of his hobbies is crossword construction, and his puzzles have recently been published in The New York Times.

Janhavi Munde

Janhavi is a rising junior at Wesleyan University, where she double-majors in Government and the College of Letters, with a minor in Human Rights Advocacy. At the university’s newspaper, the Wesleyan Argus, Janhavi has served as photo and features editor, and is the incoming managing editor. Born and raised in India, she has covered the international student news beat, along with long-form profiles, campus protests, and contractual developments at Wesleyan. Currently, she handles social media for the College of Letters and has worked as a research partner at Wesleyan’s Center for Prison Education.