Reity O’Brien is the Center’s 16th James R. Soles Fellow. She graduated from University of Delaware in May 2012 with an Honors degree in political science and economics and minors in Spanish and journalism.  She worked for The Review, the university’s student-run newspaper, where she served as city editor and covered Delaware’s turbulent Senate contest in 2010. Reity has been the recipient of awards from the Maryland Delaware DC Press Association and the William P. Frank Scholarship Fund. She has held internships at Fortune Small Business Magazine, The Cecil Whig and The Philadelphia Inquirer.