Resume
This is a TED Talk I gave at my school’s TEDx conference on March 26th, 2019 on restoring youth civic engagement.
And here are the reflections I had on the talk a little over one year later, where my perspectives on the topic have now shifted.
Here are also the links to some of my favorite articles I’ve written or co-written!
South Side Weekly (Contributing Writer, current position)
Tenant Unions Form to Cope with the Crisis
How 2020 Pushed Blvck Svm to New Heights
Chicago Maroon (Columnist, current position)
Institute of Partisans: Why UChicago’s IOP Should Abandon Its Non-Partisan Approach
The University is Incapable of Prioritizing Its Students
For UChicago Mutual Aid to Work, We Need Consensus-Building
Our Pass/Fail System is Failing Us
Harrowed by the Two-Year Housing Policy
NABJ Student Multimedia Project 2020 (Print Team)
Black Journalists Seek Truth Over “Objectivity”
Finding My Abolitionist Voice as a Journalist
Treasurer’s Race Sparks Debate on Treatment of LGBTQ+ Members
UChicago Institute of Politics The Gate Political Journal (Contributing Writer)
Los Altos High School Talon Newspaper (Web Managing Editor)
Councilwoman Neysa Fligor Feature
Nipsey Hussle was my Eritrean-American hero
School Segregation (Helped co-write main story as well as have a personal column in the spread)
Elections Editorial (wrote but on the behalf of our editorial board)
Los Altos Town Crier Newspaper (Editorial Intern)
Racial Profiling in the Bay Area
2018 Los Altos local elections reflection