Hello everyone! My name is Annie, I use She/Her/Hers or They/Them/Theirs pronouns, and I’m an Undergraduate Coordinator at the Center for Civic Justice. I began as an intern two years ago, in 2018, with the hopes of mobilizing Stony Brook students to vote, but I could never have predicted that our work would be so […]
In order to cultivate civic-justice in one’s community, it is essential to take initiative in order to give voices to the unheard. Activist and author Blair Imani does just that as she managed to cultivate a large platform in order to shed light on her experiences being a queer, Black, Muslim woman. Imani initially made […]
The Isle de Jean Charles Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe (IDJC) tribe in Louisiana is a largely secluded community, existing 80 miles southwest of New Orleans in the middle of a robust wetland. They, due to this seclusion, have not bore the brunt of COVID-19 as many other American communities have. However, they face another equally as threatening […]
According to research done by the CollegeBoard, college tuition has risen by an average of 3% every year for the past 20 years (1). This may seem like insignificant amount, but these tuition hikes add up over time, especially since tuition typically rises about 6% above the rate of inflation (2). To put this in […]