Chipsters Erica Walters (left) and Emilie Yam on the desk of CNN Headline News in Atlanta. Walters, a graduate of the University of Memphis, is a Summer 2008 Chips Quinn Scholar at The Dispatch in Lexington, Ky. Yam graduated from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and is a video journalist for CNN. She was a Summer 2007 Scholar at The Tennessean in Nashville. The two have been friends since fifth grade.