Writing Clips/Reporting Projects
Older migrant youth face steep challenges enrolling in NYC schools
When 17-year-old Amadou* arrived in New York City in March, his first priority was to enroll in high school. With his eyes on a career in business and dreams of starting his own company someday, he wanted to get on track with others his age as fast as possible. But when it came to getting enrolled in a public high school as an older teen from Senegal without any official school records, he found himself hitting dead end after dead end.
The Industries Putting Lives at Risk - A Data Visualization Project
Final project for my Intro to Data Visualization Class at Parsons School of Design/The New School, as part of my MA in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism. This set of visualizations examines a set of facilities data from the EPA’s Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators, or (RSEI) model.
Lakewood students say AP African American Studies course provides a clearer picture of US history - Signal Cleveland
Starting the last class period of the day, Lakewood High School teacher Austin Sparks told his students that they would be discussing the civil rights movement.
But maybe not in the way they’ve learned about it before in their U.S. history classes.
Students react to appointment of Warren Morgan as new CEO of Cleveland Schools - Signal Cleveland
Mayor Justin Bibb and the school board that he oversees announced Tuesday that Morgan, currently the chief academic officer at Indianapolis Public Schools, would replace outgoing CEO Eric Gordon after the school year. Here’s what a few students had to say.
Ohio’s anti-transgender bills could reverse inclusive statewide school athletic policies - Signal Cleveland
Bradie Anderson is excited to be finished with her 8th grade year, and she’s already started setting goals for high school: joining the debate team, running for student council president, and playing on the varsity soccer team. But anti-transgender legislation quickly making its way through the Ohio legislature could interfere with her plans.
Outgoing CMSD chief Eric Gordon says ‘hidden Cleveland’ still holding back students
In Eric Gordon’s view, there are still “two Clevelands.” In one Cleveland, choice abounds and students can take advantage of hundreds of great opportunities to thrive from grade school to career. The other, what he calls a “hidden Cleveland,” is distinguished by poverty, the effects of lead poisoning, housing instability, and other issues showing the persistence of systemic racism that holds students back from reaching their potential.
Taking Bosnia’s Constitution to Court – an Unfinished Fight - Balkan Insight
Bosnia’s elites have ignored a stream of European court rulings ordering the country to make its constitution less discriminatory – but those struggling for a citizen- based state have not given up.