Jakki Padilla has worked in multitude of positions due to their natural curiosity to learn. This curiosity allowed to them to take on editorial positions at el Don News such as Social Media, Photography, Lifestyle, Website and Managing Editor. In 2024, Padilla learned how to write grants for el Don News’ 100th year anniversary art exhibition where she marketed the event across Santa Ana eventually leading to government officials and journalists from local media outlets such as LAist, Voice of OC and LATaco. Padilla has won first place in best opinion Design, third in website design, fifth place in social justice reporting and second place in best short form video for social media at the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) and California Media Awards (CMA) ceremonies.

Since graduating Santa Ana College, Padilla’s journey continues on at Long Beach State University (CSULB) in their Public Relations department while working at the Associated Students Inc. (ASI) Communications as a communications assistant. As a communications assistant Padilla has written press releases, marketed through social media, writes two newsletters a week, writes an article a week and copy edits everything released by ASI.