Kayli Plotner
STUDENT FELLOW
Kayli Plotner is a graduate student at Southern Illinois University, pursuing her Masters of Science in Professional Media Management, with a specialization in multimedia reporting. She has received awards for editorial writing, news writing and opinion writing from the Illinois College Press Association and is the former editor-in-chief of the student run publication, the Daily Egyptian. She has held multimedia internships in Washington, D.C., Indianapolis and Reading, Pa. She currently works as the graduate advisor and on-air cohost for WIDB student radio at SIU.
![Media file: cipi.jpg](/sites/default/files/03-11-16/cipi.jpg "A group of teenage girls sit in the corner of a basketball court at a government-operated children's home in San Salvador. Ricardo, the director of the home, said girls make up the majority of their population. “In some cases there are social risks, especially with girls. In this country there are gangs—they have had a connection with [the girls] and they’re instructing them what to do," he said. "The girls aren’t criminals, the girls we have here. But there is a risk because they are girls. They’re very innocent and they’re very pretty—the gang members want them." Image by Kayli Plotner. El Salvador, 2016.")