The year is 1933. President Franklin Roosevelt has just taken office. After fighting the Great Depression for years, things are finally looking up. People are happy, money is circulating and Billie Holiday’s...

I hope to work in politics one day….even though the environment constantly seems to be toxic and unsafe for women. Although I suspect women have had to endure harassment for as long as they have been...

It can be challenging to have the same routine every day. I, for example, usually start my day with an abrupt wake-up to my alarm, fall asleep again only to wake up at 8:29 a.m. and rush to  my Sustainability...

Growing up, gender standards played such a prominent role in the way I understood my gender identity. For most of my life, my parents reinforced the gender standards set by society onto me. This not only...

Cancel culture will be the final check against the partisan absolution of a guilty Donald Trump.  How did we get here? The advancement of our human project requires the freedom to share competing ideas....

The new year is officially in full swing and with that comes the annual tradition of new year resolutions. Already one month in and we typically see the drop in resolutions and, especially in a year like...

Content warning: The following column discusses eating disorders while exploring body image.   According to the National Eating Disorder Association, body image is defined as the way “you see yourself...

Over the summer, I went on a National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) trip, the first NOLS trip since quarantine started. My excursion started in July, at the Southern end of the Wind River Rang in Wyoming....

Dani Fenster and I worked as official poll watchers for the Democratic party on Nov. 3, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. You need to be 16 to work the polls, but we were allowed to “watch” because we were...

Walking has been my quarantine cure. Every day I walk up 12 blocks and then down 12 blocks. Sometimes I listen to podcasts, other times I listen to music. Some days I won’t listen to anything, just the...

It’s my abuela's 80 birthday. All four grandchildren surround her. My younger cousin stares at the heavily decorated chocolate cake while my older cousin, sister and myself stare up at my grandmother....

Ever since I was younger, I was called a “tomboy.” I was always told that I needed to dress and act more like a girl. I never thought much of this since I knew inside of myself that it didn’t make...