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Jenna Woodring

Jenna Woodring is a junior at Lewis and Clark College, majoring in International Affairs with a speciality in Political Economy and Middle East/North African  

Nina-Grace Montes

Nina-Grace Montes

Nina-Grace Montes is a senior at University of Oregon majoring in Journalism and minoring in Latinx Studies. She also works as a sports writer, focusing on how  

Katie Livermore

Katie Livermore

Katie Livermore is a junior at Oregon State University, where she is Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Barometer, the student newspaper. She is pursuing 

Danielle Tran

Danielle Tran

Danielle Tran is an undergraduate at UC Berkeley studying English and Education. The daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, they owe their value for higher  

Sankar Raman

Call Me Dr. Olive Bukuru

When Olive Bukuru was six months old her and her family fled their home country of Burundi in search of a safe life. They ended up in a refugee camp 

Sankar Raman

A Focus on the Possible

For Emiliano Ruelas Sosa, the doors to the American dream began to close when he was 15. Due to his legal status he was not allowed to get his driver’s […]

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Vanessa Hernandez Barron

Vanessa Hernandez Barron is a junior at Willamette University, where she is earning a degree in Business Administration and Politics, Policy, Law, and Ethics.  

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Eliana Feinstein

Eliana Feinstein is a writer and editor from Los Angeles. She currently attends Reed College, where she is majoring in English and minoring in film & media studies.

Seth Eislund

Seth Eislund

Seth Eislund is a recent graduate of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. He has written nonfiction stories for the past five years, covering pressing  

Makka Djibrine

Competition From Within

Education is a prized commodity for Makka Djibrine Khatir. But it hasn’t always been this way. Indeed, for most of her early life, education was the same as suffering.

Natalia Lopez

Natalia Lopez

Natalia Lopez is a recent (2022) graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., majoring in International Politics and minoring in Spanish.  

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Isabelle Williams

Isabelle Williams is a senior majoring in Journalism at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. She is minoring in Editing and Publishing as well as Theater  

Karen Weliky

Building a Future With Forgiveness

When Romy Ahounou was just a little boy in the Republic of the Congo, war broke out. “My parents put me and my brother in a suitcase and put us […]

Jim Lommasson

Fabric, Nyarugusu, Tanzania

Jeanette Amisi Mmunga: when the world unravels before you and even your dreams are crumbling stones when everything you dare to touch is set on fire and all