Daniela Quintanilla

Bio

Daniela recently graduated from Columbia University where she served on the managing board of the Columbia Daily Spectator and was an opinion editor and columnist. She has previously contributed to PolitickerNJ.com and served a term as editor in chief of Inside New York.
'Americans in Bed' Review: HBO Interviews People Between the Sheets
By Daniela Quintanilla
Producer and director Philippa Robinson brings her British in Bed candid interviews to the United States with a similar documentary: Americans in Bed. From the comfort of their beds, these 10 "average American" couples describe every aspect of their…
An Open Letter to Mattel and American Girl
By Daniela Quintanilla
I recently read an article in the Atlantic that highlighted the drastic change in the American Girl doll brand over the last fifteen years, from which one of two truths is evident: either your company is sexist, or you are too lazy to be innovative…
Susan Patton's Guide to Finding a Husband
By Daniela Quintanilla
Apparently, there aren't any men worth marrying who don't go to the best schools in the country.  I am a 21-year-old Ivy League female. In one year, I will be graduating, which means that according to Susan Patton, I have one year left to find a…
Election 2012 Aftermath: 3 Things Republicans Can Do to Regroup For 2014 and 2016
By Daniela Quintanilla
The Republican Party did not suffer a massive defeat on Tuesday night, contrary to what most may think. The party retained its majority in the House of Representatives; Mitt Romney won 206 electoral votes compared to John McCain's measly 173 votes…
Tammy Baldwin: Why Her Victory Underlined a Big Night For LGBT Equality on Election Day
By Daniela Quintanilla
The historic reelection of President Barack Obama on Tuesday night ensures that the next four years will be as progressive as the last four, if not more so. Civil rights have been achieved for equal pay for women, access to education for minorities,…
Rich Kids of Instagram: Millennials and the 1 Percent
By Daniela Quintanilla
A new website has been making its way across the blogosphere, and isn't based on music or animals, like so many other amusing blogs that have captured millennials' attention. It's called Rich Kids of Instagram and is exactly what it sounds like - a…
Lolo Jones Virgin: Sex History Has No Bearing On Olympics Performance
By Daniela Quintanilla
American Olympian Lolo Jones finished in fourth place in the women's 100-meter hurdle finals, losing the bronze by only 0.10 seconds to Kellie Wells, another member of the U.S. team. In the 2008 Beijing Games, she was in the lead for the event…
Sikh Shooter Wade Michael Page Could Have Been Stopped
By Daniela Quintanilla
On Sunday, a man walked into a building in Wisconsin and ruthlessly shot into a crowd, killing six people and critically wounding another three before committing suicide. That man was a white supremacist. The building was a place of worship.  The…
Sexism Runs Rampant At London Olympics 2012
By Daniela Quintanilla
The Olympic Games are a unifying global event featuring athletes from 204 countries of all creeds, religions, sexual orientations, and age groups. Despite the political issues that seep into the Games, notably Mitt Romney's skepticism of London's…
NBC Ruined the London Olympics 2012 For Everyone
By Daniela Quintanilla
"If pissing off the Olympic audience were an event in London, NBC would be winning gold, silver, and bronze, every single night," Derek Thompson wrote in the Atlantic yesterday.  NBC has been facing a lot of criticism from the American public for…
4 Ways to Fuel the Economic Recovery
By Daniela Quintanilla
The economic recovery of the United States has been a gradual process that has perpetually been in the news, in politics, and in the minds of all Americans as student loans debt increases and jobs become harder to find. But there has been recovery,…
Dark Knight Rises Shooting: This Is Why America Needs Better Gun Laws
By Daniela Quintanilla
The National Rifle Association's infamous slogan is "gun's don't kill people; people do." As British comedian Eddie Izzard once joked, "I think the gun helps."  Within the last 15 years, the United States has suffered 12 mass shootings that have…
Scientology Led to Katie Holmes Divorce, Mormonism Could End Mitt Romney
By Daniela Quintanilla
After Katie Holmes suddenly filed for divorce this month from Tom Cruise, and then after the shockingly quick settlement two weeks later, the big question was immediately: Why is she ending this highly-publicized seven-year relationship? At the root…
Mitt Romney Impersonated Police Officers: Yet Another Reason to be Creeped Out by Him
By Daniela Quintanilla
Mitt Romney's youth has already been a subject of conversation this election cycle already and  while some revelations have been amusing, others have been quite troubling. As a "wayward" teenager he had one sip of beer and took a drag from a…
Kate Upton is As Fat As Barack Obama is Muslim
By Daniela Quintanilla
This week, self-proclaimed "Skinny Gurl" on the blog Skinny Gossip posted this absurd tirade about how fat Kate Upton is, asserting that she is 80% genetically identical to a cow. Skinny Gossip's mission statement is to be "a gossip site with a…
90% of Teen Girls Have Dieted, Or Tried To: That's Why Seventeen Will Use Unedited Photos
By Daniela Quintanilla
Seventeen magazine announced this week that its August issue will be the first to be published under the new "Body Peace Treaty," crafted by editor Ann Shoket, in which one unedited photograph of a model will be featured. The Treaty requires the…
Florida Governor Rick Scott Refuses Medicaid Funds, Making His State Worse Off
By Daniela Quintanilla
Just when you thought the health care battle was over, Governor Rick Scott (R-FL) was the first governor to announce that he will not accept approximately $1.9 billion dollars in Medicaid funds allocated to his state by the Affordable Care Act. The…
What to the Sex Slave is the Fourth of July?
By Daniela Quintanilla
What to the slave is the Fourth of July? In his essay of the same title, Frederick Douglass notably reminded Americans that as they celebrated Independence Day, not all Americans could enjoy being in the supposed land of the free. Not all Americans…
Why Ann Curry Failed at NBC and Where She Will Be Next
By Daniela Quintanilla
Last week, Ann Curry left NBC's Today Show after a year as co-host with Matt Lauer and 16 years with NBC.  Good Morning America replaced Today as the number one morning talk show in April and began speculation that Curry would be replaced. In the…
Lessons Learned From Cornell Hazing Death
By Daniela Quintanilla
In February 2011, three Cornell students pledging the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon (S.A.E.) went to kidnap two brothers in a common practice that occurs usually at the very end of pledging and allows pledges to test the brothers' own knowledge of…