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 […]

Sankar Raman

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.  

Sankar Raman

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.  

Sankar Raman

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  

Jim Lommasson

Hands, Mtabila Camp, Tanzania

Belise Nishimwe: Bird Call He taught me how to wrap my hands into one like two seas that clash with one another to form a cave  

John Rudoff

Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes is a junior at the University of Portland studying English and Environmental Science. He has experience reporting and editing for UP’s 

John Rudoff

Finally A Place to Call Home

Every time someone asks May Lui Tike where she’s from, she answers: “I am not from anywhere.”  She has a good reason for this response:  

John Rudoff

Peyton McGovern

Peyton McGovern is a senior at Portland State University, where she is earning a degree in English Literature with a certificate in nonprofit management.