Cassondra Sommer (aka Cassy) is News Manager of the Community News team, dedicated to covering local news of interest to readers in the areas of transportation, education, business and more. She also serves as chair of the Diversity Committee, which is working to be a voice of change, seeking to help create diversity and inclusion within the Staten Island Advance workplace, its newspaper and SILive.com.

To read some of her work, click here.