Email: shauntel.lowe@patch.com
Phone: 858-204-6941
Hometown: San Diego

Bio: Shauntel Lowe is a journalist from Southern California.

Shauntel attended the University of California, Los Angeles where she majored in English and minored in political science while working for the college newspaper.

She comes to Patch after two years covering K-12 education for  a San Francisco Bay Area newspaper.

She's written for the Oakland Tribune and The San Diego Union-Tribune. In 2008, Shauntel was a Chips Quinn Scholar and a fellow in the USC Annenberg/California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship. In 2005, the San Diego Association of Black Journalists awarded her the Ozzie Roberts Scholarship. She also is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.

When Shauntel isn't writing, she's probably watching football and Los Angeles Lakers games or pestering her brother about sending more pictures of her baby niece.

Beliefs
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Politics: Taking a political science class in high school changed my outlook on the world.

Local Hot-Button Issues: Rancho Bernardo has grown closer since the devastating fires in 2007. People have rallied to support each other as they rebuild and move forward. Strengthening that community and preserving the aspects that make it such a desired place — like strong schools — seem to be important to those who call RB home.