Seven years later, Bah had improved her writing and journalism skills enough to receive the Wisconsin Journalism Education Association’s “2023 Wisconsin Journalist of the Year” recognition and is now competing for the title of National High School Journalist of the Year through the national Journalism Education Association.
Bah recently spoke with the Cap Times about the award and her budding journalism career, as she hopes to pursue English, journalism or “something in that realm” at a to-be-determined college next year.