Nelson Sederstrom

Thanks for checking my page. I'm Nelson, a senior at UWM, majoring in Jounalism and residing in the beautiful city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For those of you who have noticed my background is in fact Detroit, Michigan; I will elaborate on that later.

Since moving to the city from the small town of Shawano, WI, where I grew up, I've essentially fallen in love with the city. The idea of it, what it stands for, how it is constantly changing, and how it can harbor limitless potential.

My passion has brought me to various cities across the midwest, as far as Detroit to Cincinnati, to try and fulfil an ever-growing thirst of new stories in new places. From a journalistic point of view, the idea of how many people, how many different walks of life, different backgrounds, all with different stories to tell is absolutely mindblowing, and in fact, utterly fascinating.

The city is my diving board; the stories it holds are my ocean.

Back to Detroit; for those of you wondering. I took a trip here by myself in the summer of 2011 for 5 days without a car, without knowing anyone and only having one rule: do not leave the city limits. I ended up having the time of my life, despite the place being resigned to death by the media; constantly being dubbed 'murder capital America' or some other off-color title. This not only challeneged me to find reasons to prove the title wrong, but to do it a truly unique, non-traditional way like I did. I mean, who vacations to Detroit by choice, let alone by themselves?

A particular blog, aptly tltled detroitblog, deals with feature stories about things in Detroit you'd never even realize existed. People, places, businesses, things out of the ordinary, and stories that are always fascinating and utterly enthralling to the everyday reader. After encountering this website, it has inspired me to partake in a similar style of writing for a city like Milwaukee, where there are limitless stories to tell, and frankly, not enough people to tell them.

My goal is to show people a Milwaukee that most do not realize, or even want to acknowledge, exists beyond what they are comfortable with. To tell the stories, good and bad, that people deserve to hear by utlizing my training at the university with various types of media, namely audio, photography, editing sound, videos and photos, and the always powerful word processor.