Galla and her husband help kick off the holiday season every year at the downtown tree lighting ceremony on the corner of College and Allen streets. For the past ten years, Galla has welcomed Santa and entertained the crowd with Christmas carols and hot chocolate.
Video reporting by Bessie Floresgomez, edited by Samantha Lantz
Senior / Broadcast Journalism
Samantha graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Technology in 2013 with an associates degree in Mass Media Communication. She is now in her senior year at Penn State majoring in Broadcast Journalism. Experience she has had includes being an anchor, reporter, and international correspondent for the Centre County Report, working as an executive producer, segment producer, and anchor for In The Game, and serving as a reporter and network editor for PSNtv. She has had internship experience with the Centre County Visitors Bureau and WETM Channel 18 News in Elmira, NY.
Graduate / New Media
My art practice focuses on social issues related to Hispanic immigration, discrimination and lack of identity of the Hispanic community in the U.S. These issues became very important in my art work and personal life when I emigrated to the U.S., when I felt out of place, an outsider.
