Jenna Meleedy is a junior pursuing a B.A. in media studies with minors in civic and community engagement and communication arts and sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. She is a News Literacy Ambassador with the News Literacy Initiative and incoming intern with the Media Education Lab. Coming of age in the midst of the most divisive political cycles in recent history drove her to media literacy as a tool for empowerment and a combatant to political radicalization.