Month August 2022
Sip & Paint Event
Pharmaceutical companies should help people, not hurt them
By: Surabi Shanmugam – 2022 Summer Intern Every day, my uncle wakes up, eats his breakfast, and takes his medication. One day, as he was taking his meds, he turned to me. Holding up his bottle of Jardiance, a name…
First generation kids face both challenges and rewards in American society
By: Pari Patel – 2022 Summer Intern My family immigrated to this country for a better life for themselves and for their children. Like many immigrant families, they also must support family members back home. Taking care of relatives here…
Muslim Assimilation
Muslims shouldn’t have to assimilate to be good Americans By: Sara Farheen – 2022 Summer Intern As the Pew Research Center reports, “Muslim Americans are a diverse and growing population, currently estimated at 3.45 million people of all ages ……
What the abortion debate is missing
By: Chloe Meyer-Gehrke – 2022 Summer Intern In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, enslaved women in America chewed cotton root to induce abortions. It was a form of resistance; to give birth would be to deliver one more slave to…
Summer Internship 2022
Online Misinformation
It’s easy to get information online, but harder than ever to find the truth By: Ariya Bandy – 2022 Summer Intern Internet algorithms have come a long way, and they are incredibly effective in making our lives easier, but it…
Teacher’s Salaries
American society will suffer unless we pay teachers more By: Maheen Hamza – 2022 Summer Intern In our country, teaching is a tough job, and teachers deserve to make more money. According to the National Education Association (NEA), the average…
We Care: Saving our Future | 2022 International Young Leaders Conference
August 3, 2022 The 2022 summer interns put together the annual International Young Leaders Conference. The four panels consisted of: Gun Violence & Its Effect on Youth and Education, Covid-19 & Education, Social Inequality, and The War in Ukraine &…