Caysea Stone

Caysea Stone

Caysea Stone is expected to graduate from the University of Central Florida in Fall 2025 with a bachelor's in electronic journalism and a minor in women's studies. While at UCF, she has contributed various web stories to the student newspaper and news packages to The Charge On Air. She has been the chapter editor for UCF's Her Campus Chapter for two consecutive semesters, a role directly underneath editor-in-chief, as well as a staff writer since beginning her UCF journey. She currently interns at Watermark Out News, where one of her stories became the front page cover. One day soon, she hopes to be working in a newsroom, reporting on the stories that matter to Orlando.  

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Some Of My Latest

Watermark Out News •

Hope in the House: Activist Felipe Sousa-Lazaballet on his run for the Florida House - Watermark Out News

ORLANDO | Felipe Sousa-Lazaballet, executive director of Hope CommUnity Center and decades-long immigration and LGBTQ+ activist, is running for Florida Rep. Anna V. Eskmani’s District 42 seat in the Florida House of Representatives.The district, which stretches from just north of Maitland to Belle Isle, has been represented by Eskamani since November 2022.
Watermark Out News •

Marriage Equality celebrates a decade as law. Is there a chance it could be reversed? - Watermark Out News

On Christmas Eve 2014, Bill Stevens and Robert Brings were among two couples involved in a lawsuit against Orange County after their marriage license request was denied. By Jan. 6, 2015, the two became the first gay couple in the county to obtain a same-sex marriage license, just seven months prior to the historic Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, which required all states to license and recognize same-sex marriages.
The Charge •

Mass shootings claim 12 lives since Office of Gun Violence Prevention shutdown

Since the Office of Gun Violence Prevention shut down on Jan. 20, the U.S. has experienced 14 different mass shootings, leaving 12 dead and 60 injured total, according to the Gun Violence Archives. The OGVP, introduced by U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost and established by former President Joe Biden in September of 2023, was tasked with coordinating the federal response to mass shootings, providing resources to gun violence survivors and aiding partnerships around the country to reduce gun-related crimes...