Danae Lenz
Danae Lenz, a junior news-editorial major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been selected as ACES content intern for 2011-12. She will be writing stories for the ACES newsletter and website and helping proof the newsletter.
Lenz is a junior news-editorial major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She was born and raised in Billings, Mont., where she spent her younger years terrorizing her little brother. Eventually, she moved on to other forms of expression, namely reading and writing. Lenz says the book that ignited her love of English, and her first chapter book ever, was J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Ring.”
After graduating from high school, she went to Northwest College in Powell, Wyo., to major in photography. She got involved with the Northwest Trail, NWC’s award-winning weekly student newspaper, as a photographer, but ultimately ended up rediscovering her true love: words.
Lenz’s introduction to ACES happened in October 2010 when she was a co-editor of the Northwest Trail. She and the other editor took a road trip from Powell to Lincoln, Neb. (approximately 811 miles, according to Google maps), for an ACES regional conference because of a pressing need to improve their paper’s copy.
The experience led her to transfer to UNL this year.
In addition to the ACES internship, she works as a copy editor and general assignment reporter for UNL’s student newspaper, the Daily Nebraskan.
