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Ben Lyle (he\/him), is a communications major transferring to Sonoma State University in the fall of 2026. He was born and has lived the majority of his life in the California county of Sonoma, a region famous for its wine industry. In 2025, after a lengthy absence from higher education to pursue a variety of careers to support himself and his family, he enrolled in classes at Santa Rosa Junior College. There he discovered a passion for journalism, thanks to his time at the college\u2019s student-run news publication, The Oak Leaf. While on the newspaper, he tried to help out wherever he could, getting interviews for breaking news stories, writing an experiential piece ab<\/span>out mental health for the publication\u2019s biannual magazine, copy-editing, writing reviews and spending a lot of time recording podcasts based on his interests. He is still unsure of where he will end up after graduating college in a few years, but he has been enjoying challenging himself in new ways as he continues his journey.<\/p>\n

View his work for the Kyoto Project<\/p>\n

How to truly be here<\/a><\/p>\n

Boosters work to revitalize shrinking town<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ben Lyle (he\/him), is a communications major transferring to Sonoma State University in the fall of 2026. He<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":71,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2791","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.ieimedia.com\/2026kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.ieimedia.com\/2026kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.ieimedia.com\/2026kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.ieimedia.com\/2026kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.ieimedia.com\/2026kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/projects.ieimedia.com\/2026kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3041,"href":"https:\/\/projects.ieimedia.com\/2026kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2791\/revisions\/3041"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.ieimedia.com\/2026kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.ieimedia.com\/2026kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}