{"id":1665,"date":"2023-05-29T19:25:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T19:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2023-05-29T19:25:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T19:25:38","slug":"story-47-elex-michaelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/2023\/05\/29\/story-47-elex-michaelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Story #47: Elex Michaelson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1666\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/05\/47-Elex-Michaelson-50-for-50-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Profile picture and text: 50 FOR 50 STORIES: Story #47: Elex Michaelson\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/05\/47-Elex-Michaelson-50-for-50-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/05\/47-Elex-Michaelson-50-for-50-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/05\/47-Elex-Michaelson-50-for-50-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/05\/47-Elex-Michaelson-50-for-50-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/05\/47-Elex-Michaelson-50-for-50-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2023\/05\/47-Elex-Michaelson-50-for-50.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Story #47: Elex Michaelson<\/h1>\n<p class=\"story-byline\"><strong>By Grace Galante<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before he was co-anchor at Fox 11 Los Angeles, Elex Michaelson was a tutor at JEP.<\/p>\n<p>During his sophomore year, he taught an eight week class on earthquakes at St. Raphael school as a part of his geology class.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kids we taught personified kindness, gratitude, and I can still see their smiling faces to this day,\u201d said Michaelson.<\/p>\n<p>A double-major in journalism and political science at USC, Michaelson says that his time at JEP allowed him to gain a deeper understanding of the social and political issues he studied in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kids gave us a fresh perspective on this community and made us realize that many of the issues that are often stereotyped in conversation are actually way more nuanced.\u201d said Michaelson.<\/p>\n<p>Through his work as a news anchor and a political talk show host, Michaelson notices that many people today live in echo chambers and don\u2019t know people with different perspectives or backgrounds. He\u2019s grateful that JEP forces students to do the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[JEP] gets people out of their comfort zones, it gets them to communities they may have never ever visited on their own.\u201d said Michaelson. \u201cIt prompts conversation that makes us all realize that there&#8217;s a lot more that unites us than divides us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Michaelson is proud to be an alum of JEP because of how they have helped the university build relationships with the surrounding communities. During his time at USC, the school was known as the \u201cUniversity of Spoiled Children.\u201d Now, he thinks a more apt title would be \u201cUniversity of Serving the Community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite graduating and leaving the JEP program, Michaelson is still very much involved with the JEP family. 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