Meet the Staff of USD TV

Gabrielle Grimm 

Station Manager / Senior

Gabrielle is a Film and Media major from Seattle who is passionate about visual storytelling and production. She believes USDtv can be an avenue for community and highlight multiple sides of the events around us. 

Outside of USDtv she enjoys spending time outside, surfing, videography, philosophy, and social justice advocacy.

Lily Rand

Executive Producer / Senior

Lily Rand is a Communication Studies major from Arlington, Texas. With a background in theater, she enjoys storytelling through her journalism with USDTV. Off-cameras, she loves to hang out with her family or her new puppy, Finn. 

Megan Shannon

News Segment Producer / Senior

Megan enjoys bringing quality news stories to the USD community through broadcast journalism. She is always eager to get the inside scoop on happenings throughout our campus, and values the responsibility to inform our community on important news at USD and the world at large. 

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Emily Leyva

Lead Editor / Junior

Emily is a Communication Studies major and Marketing and Film Studies minor from just outside Los Angeles, CA. She is going into her third year with USDtv. When she is not editing episodes or busy with other on campus involvements, she can be found finding new movies to watch, working on crafts, or even impulse dyeing her hair.

Mac Johnson 

Field Producer / Junior

Mac Johnson is a year student at USD originally hailing from Evergreen, Colorado. Majoring in Communication studies. He started working for USDTV his first semester of Sophomore year, and has worked as a field producer during his time at USDtv.    He loves meeting new and interesting people and getting their views on the world.  He has a passion for the outdoors, and enjoys spending time enjoying the natural environment and listening to silence.