A LU M NI PROFIL E
DAX TEJERA '03 AND
LAUREN SANTA-CRUZ '05
BEING SUCH A TIGHT-KNIT COMMUNITY,
PALMER TRINITY SCHOOL IS PROUD TO
PRODUCE AN EXTENSIVE NETWORK OF
SUCCESSFUL ALUMNI, WHO OFTEN CROSS EACH
OTHER'S PATHS FOLLOWING GRADUATION.
"It was kind of surreal—I had a childhood obsession with television,
but I never thought my childhood dream could come true," Dax said.
"Within a few months of graduating from college, I was in the same
hallways as Brian Williams, Matt Lauer, and Tom Brokaw, working
the biggest stories of the day—and frankly, it hasn't been any less
exciting since."
Recently, Dax Tejera '03 has begun working with fellow Falcon
Lauren Santa-Cruz '05 at Fusion—a new network aimed at Latinos
and millennials that is the brainchild of television networks ABC
and Univision. Lauren joined Fusion as a Digital Journalist for the
network's flagship primetime show, "America with Jorge Ramos."
Joining the PTS family as a freshman in the Upper School, Dax
was always eager to get involved in activities; including Student
Government, Key Club and the school's Thespian Troupe, to name a
few. After graduation, Dax headed north to Dartmouth College, where
he earned a double major in History and Government. With degrees
in hand, he left Dartmouth and immediately began working for NBC.
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As a Producer, Dax spent his early days working as NBC led its
peers into the emerging digital age and set the standard for digital
technology in the television news industry. "NBC trained me to be
ready to travel to any part of the world and broadcast a live television
signal with nothing more than myself and a backpack of technology—
literally," Dax says. "And that's an extraordinary privilege in this day
and age."
Starting at Palmer Trinity School as a 7th-grade student, in 1999,
Lauren Santa-Cruz '05 was very involved in Falcon athletics—joining
Varsity Girls Basketball, Softball, Soccer, and Volleyball, the sport
she was most known for. With an interest in human behavior, Lauren
earned an undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of
Miami, and later went on to earn a Master's in Multimedia Journalism
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