The young adults that Schuellein teaches English to at Oceanside High School are not simply her students. She never uses the word “students” when referring to them. She always calls them “my kids.”
In Suffolk County, Long Island, Viloria-Fisher is in the early stages of a House race in one of New York’s most conservative areas, the 1st Congressional District. If she secures the Democratic nomination, she will face the incumbent Zeldin, who won re-election with a landslide victory in 2016.
Abandoned as a baby in China, Jessica Kelly has felt out of place her whole life. Growing up in a town with little diversity and her American mother’s culture, Kelly struggled to find a place where she belonged. Searching for…
Hannah Mellor works at the Lawrence Alloway Memorial Art Gallery in Stony Brook University’s Melville Library, sitting at a desk just inside the gallery door. During her shifts, she has enough time to do some homework, but every time she…