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Isabel Soisson

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BSR Contributor Since October 27, 2020

Isabel Soisson is a multimedia journalist with experience in writing, editing, social media, and production. She's worked with Courier Newsroom, WPMT FOX43, CNBC, NBC News, Philadelphia Magazine, and Philadelphia Style Magazine.

Isabel Soisson is a multimedia journalist with experience in writing, editing, social media, and production. She's worked at Courier Newsroom and WPMT FOX43, as well as interned at CNBC, NBC News, Philadelphia Magazine, and Philadelphia Style Magazine. She received her undergraduate degree from Seton Hall University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism and a minor in political science. During her time at Seton Hall, she served as Editor-in-Chief of The Setonian, the school's official undergraduate newspaper. She is currently looking for her next full-time role.

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This Broad Street McDonald's was the perfect dinner spot for the CAPA students pouring past the pillars across the street. (Photo by Alaina Johns.)

CAPA alums lost an old friend when the McDonald’s at Broad and Carpenter closed

Firsts, lasts, and cheeseburgers
CAPA students made the McDonald’s across the street a second home between classes and concerts, where the drama never stopped and nobody went hungry. Isabel Soisson remembers.
Isabel Soisson

Isabel Soisson

Essays 4 minute read
Getting to know students in a different way: a CAPA class of young musicians practicing with band director Brian Ewing. (Image courtesy of Brian Ewing.)

Young artists in the pandemic: distance learning at CAPA

Growing as artists, together and apart
Adult artists are not the only ones coping with a radically changed world. At Philly’s High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, the next generation continues to learn despite the distance. They talk with Isabel Soisson.
Isabel Soisson

Isabel Soisson

Essays 4 minute read
Nardy testifying at the Fair Workweek final passage City Council hearing in December 2018. (Photo courtesy of Madison Nardy).
Randall Goosby is the featured violinist in Tyshawn Sorey's 'Cycles of My Being.' (Photo by Kaupo Kikkas.)
A snapshot of a snowy, small town with a couple of house complexes in the distance under a partly cloudy, blue sky

How working in journalism in rural Pennsylvania opened a new perspective

Learning to serve communities better
Isabel Soisson, a Philly-bred journalist with experience working in New York City, contemplates the differences in rural America that go unspoken and why it's important to capture the whole picture.
Isabel Soisson

Isabel Soisson

Essays 6 minute read
In profile, a young woman sits on the edge of a bed and leans over, clutching her head and stomach in pain.

Menstruation is a part of life, but pain doesn’t have to be

Why don’t we take women’s pain seriously?
Despite studies that show women experience pain more acutely, we wait longer for diagnosis and pain relief than men do—if we get relief at all. Isabel Soisson considers.
Isabel Soisson

Isabel Soisson

Essays 5 minute read
The three actors, in different costumes for their era, are grouped together onstage with concerned expressions.

Hedgerow Theatre presents Stef Smith’s Nora: A Doll’s House

The lives of our mothers
Nora: A Doll’s House, now getting its American premiere at Hedgerow Theatre, takes the Ibsen classic and reimagines Nora’s life in 1920, 1973, and 2018. Isabel Soisson reviews.
Isabel Soisson

Isabel Soisson

Reviews 4 minute read
Installation view on a sunny day outdoors, focused on a life-sized photo of the view from a City Hall window.

Mural Arts presents Emilio Martínez Poppe’s Civic Views

A government of individuals
Civic Views, a new public art installation from Mural Arts on view in the City Hall Courtyard, offers engaging perspectives from city employees at a time when public-sector workers face increasing threats. Isabel Soisson reviews.
Isabel Soisson

Isabel Soisson

Reviews 3 minute read