Mariajose Perez is a Roxbury High School senior, who has interviewed new staff at Roxbury High School and is currently taking a journalism class to improve her writing. Mariajose is starting her career as a journalist at the age of 18 because her English teacher during her junior year of high school thought she was a talented writer. Mariajose’s teacher inspired her to pursue writing. Mariajose tries to improve every day to be a great journalist.