Featured and quoted in a KGW news report on Oregon Humane’s Youth Volunteer program in Portland, Oregon. Rickabaugh Rich is highlighted as a longtime volunteer preparing to leave for college.
Press & Recognition
Judges’ Selection Winner — Photography. “Torii Gate” — Itsukushima Shrine, Hiroshima, Japan.
The RE@CH Media Festival is an international youth media competition run by The Clubhouse Network, operating 150+ Clubhouses in 20 countries. The Judges’ Selection is the higher of two award tiers. Entry submitted through The Best Buy Teen Tech Center at OMSI, Portland, Oregon.
Subject of a feature profile in Grant Magazine, the student news publication of Grant High School, Portland, Oregon.
Front-page features in Grant High School’s student arts magazine, multiple issues.
Featured and quoted in KGW News’ Healthier Together series (May 9, 2025), reported by Christine Pitawanich. The segment profiles OK You (okyou.org) and its youth-led wellness movement. Rickabaugh Rich, then a junior at Grant High School, is identified as a student leader of the Inner Peace Corps — a multi-school student group that creates and shares art projects to build emotional resilience. She appears in the video segment.
“I think a lot of people I know definitely have anxiety. We’re all getting ready to start going to college and everyone’s sort of like, ‘Oh, I don’t know what to do next,’ just sort of on edge. So I think it’s nice, for me, to have the Inner Peace Corps.”