WinCity Voices welcomes summer intern

If you are a fan of the arts in Winchester, you may have seen me grace the stage once or twice over the last few years. This sum­mer, how­ev­er, I will be sit­ting behind the lap­top as I step into the role of WinCity Voice’s first intern.

My name is Zach Ross, and I am beyond thrilled to take on the role of sum­mer intern. Having spent most of my life in Winchester, I am excit­ed to share sto­ries from our beloved community.

I am from Winchester and grad­u­at­ed from George Rogers Clark High School in 2024. While in high school, I had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to take on the role of fea­tures edi­tor of the school news­pa­per, Smoke Signals. Additionally, I had the priv­i­lege of attend­ing Governor’s School for the Arts in 2023, where I majored in Creative Writing.

With these oppor­tu­ni­ties, I have been able to cul­ti­vate a love for writ­ing, and more specif­i­cal­ly, telling sto­ries. Storytelling has always been some­thing that I want to spend my life doing, and writ­ing has always been like a depend­able friend, allow­ing me to do just that.

I cur­rent­ly attend Butler University in Indianapolis, where I am study­ing act­ing and English. Taking a step away from Kentucky soil for school­ing has real­ly shown just how much I can miss the unmis­tak­able beau­ty and the iron­clad com­mu­ni­ty like that in Clark County.

That sense of com­mu­ni­ty is why I am so excit­ed to be the intern for WinCity Voices this sum­mer. Being able to tell sto­ries that impact a com­mu­ni­ty as strong as the one in Winchester is an oppor­tu­ni­ty that many young writ­ers and jour­nal­ists can only dream of obtaining.

Clark County has been my home for over nine years, after I moved here from Berea while I was still in ele­men­tary school. Being here for so long has real­ly allowed me to cement myself in dif­fer­ent com­mu­ni­ties around Winchester, both in the com­mu­ni­ty that comes from the school dis­trict and with­in the arts as well.

My goal for the sum­mer is to cov­er a wide vari­ety of sto­ries, but espe­cial­ly the arts. The arts have been a foun­da­tion of cre­ative integri­ty in my life, and Winchester is rich with excep­tion­al artis­tic out­lets. Without places such as Leed’s Center for the Arts, my cre­ativ­i­ty would not have guid­ed me to achieve the accom­plish­ments I have, or even to begin my writ­ing journey.

It is because of the com­mu­ni­ty that Winchester has cul­ti­vat­ed that I feel so deter­mined to make the most of my sum­mer apart with WinCity Voices. There is some­thing so pow­er­ful in being able to share with each oth­er, and I hope to share as many of your sto­ries as I pos­si­bly can this summer.