Isabelle B. Rubio is a Reports Writer for TomasinoWeb.

All her life, she had been honed and primed to be a lawyer, every academic decision carefully set with that goal in mind. Even her choice to study journalism was once only seen as a calculated detour—a stepping stone toward a different dream.

But somewhere in the flurry of deadlines and bylines, unanswered emails and evaded questions, journalism stopped being just that. Like one of her idols used to sing, she started loving the craft even without a means she means to end; which is how she ended up here!