Maya Weldon-Lagrimas
Staff Reporter
maya.weldon-lagrimas@yale.edu | maya.weldon-lagrimas@yale.edu
Maya Weldon-Lagrimas currently serves as an editor for YTV, the video journalism desk of the Yale Daily News. She previously served as a staff reporter for YTV and WKND. Originally from the Stockton, California she is a sophomore in Benjamin Franklin College majoring in History and Art.
Author Archive
THE YALE DAILY NEWS, MAYA WELDON-LAGRIMAS & CHERYL CHEN
Peaches: A video essay

Cheryl Chen ’24 read an excerpt of her essay about the Asian American experience. Made with illustrations by Dora Guo ’24.

May 3, 2021

THE YALE DAILY NEWS & MAYA WELDON-LAGRIMAS
YTV Profiles: Yale Sophomore Cofounds Sustainable Fashion Company

During her year of remote learning, Rakel Tanibajeva ’24 is exploring sustainable fashion. YTV’s Maya Weldon-Lagrimas ’23 reports.

April 7, 2021

THE YALE DAILY NEWS, NATALIE KAINZ, RAZEL SUANSING & MAYA WELDON-LAGRIMAS
Yale students rush to book COVID-19 vaccine appointments

As of April 1, everyone over the age of 16 is eligible to receive a vaccine in Connecticut. Students and members of the New Haven […]

April 2, 2021

THE YALE DAILY NEWS, NATALIE KAINZ, YINGYING ZHAO, MAYA WELDON-LAGRIMAS & SEVI BURGET-FOSTER
YTV helps Yale students find their Harvard soulmate | Zoom dating

This Valentine’s Day, YTV teamed up with the Harvard Crimson to play cupid. With questions inspired by the New York Times ’36 Questions that lead […]

February 14, 2021

THE YALE DAILY NEWS & MAYA WELDON-LAGRIMAS
Yale College Student Shudipto Wahed ’24 Does Cancer Research on Gap Year

YTV profiled Yale student Shudipto Wahed’s ’24 experiences doing research during his gap year. YTV’s Maya Weldon reports.

February 9, 2021

THE YALE DAILY NEWS, NATALIE KAINZ & MAYA WELDON-LAGRIMAS
Snowstorm hits Yale during the first day of semester

A storm dropped more than a foot of snow on Yale’s campus during the first day of classes for the spring semester. YTV reports on […]

February 2, 2021

THE YALE DAILY NEWS, RAZEL SUANSING, MAYA WELDON-LAGRIMAS & ISA DOMINGUEZ
Yale students weigh in on Department of Justice lawsuit

This month, the US Department of Justice sued Yale over alleged discrimination against white and Asian American applicants in the admissions process. YTV spoke to […]

October 26, 2020

MAYA WELDON-LAGRIMAS
Defining Essential — Yale Staff Try Not to Fall Through the Cracks of the University’s Pandemic Policies

Being essential during a global health crisis  As soon as Shayrhonda Wellons leaves to work in Trumbull College dining hall, she prepares for the moment […]

October 8, 2020

LUCY WILKINS, NATALIE KAINZ, MAYA WELDON-LAGRIMAS & SEVI BURGET-FOSTER
Pandemic Routines of Yale First Years

Yale First Years report on their quarantine routines during their 14-day stay in their residential colleges.

September 14, 2020

MAYA WELDON-LAGRIMAS
Apocalypse in California — Coming to You Soon 

When I walked outside of my house in Stockton, California on a late-August afternoon, it was 115 degrees outside. White flecks of ash swirled down […]

September 11, 2020

MAYA WELDON-LAGRIMAS
13 going on 30 days of quarantine

Weekenders, COVID-19 has reverted me to someone I once was but never thought I would be again: an antsy, angsty, angrily hormonal 13year-old. Before I […]

April 9, 2020