It would have been easy for Ilse Lujan Hayes to get discouraged after graduating from CSUDH. Married and with a three-year-old daughter, the 29-year-old had aspirations of joining the competitive world of broadcast journalism, but had no experience and only had to look as far as the nightly news to see that most entry-level reporters were at least five years her junior. Four years later, her added dose of life experience not only helped her land her first broadcast job, but has served in her rise through the ranks.