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Evan Razmjoo

Evan Razmjoo

Evan Razmjoo is a senior at Corona del Mar High School, where he holds numerous leadership positions including Editor-in-Chief of the CdM Trident newspaper, President of Youth Prose Scholars, and a board member for the Los Angeles Times High School Insider. He also represents his school on the Newport Beach Mayor’s Youth Council and is active in the speech and debate program and class council. Evan is a published researcher and passionate writer. As a four-year intern at the UCI Ethics Center, his research focuses on human rights, moral courage, and moral sense theory. His work has been published in Ethics International Press, Frontiers in Psychology, and Presidential Studies Quarterly. He has presented at several prestigious conferences, including the Tobis Day Conference at UC Irvine, the Society of Political Psychology in Athens, the American Political Science Association in Montreal, and the International Society of Political Psychology in Prague. For his contributions, he has been honored as a Tobis Fellow, Will Lampros Scholar, and Easton Family Mentor of Distinction. Evan also writes creatively. He has published over 20 articles for his school newspaper, won the National High School Poetry Competition, and received a Scholastics Gold Key. His work also earned first place in the California Association of Teachers of English regional contest and was featured in California English, the organization’s statewide journal. In his free time, Evan enjoys playing basketball, reading, and spending time with his friends and family.
Column: Know your rights—the initiative process

Column: Know your rights—the initiative process

You probably learned in school that once you’re 18, you can register to vote in elections to select representatives to govern on your behalf—from mayors and school boards to senators and the President themself. However, what you might not be as well versed in is that once you become a California voter, you have the right to vote on the laws themselves through something called “the initiative process.”

The simpler, the better

The simpler, the better

Whether one decides to do their learning using a computer or pen and paper, studies show that the most effective strategy is to do it the old-fashioned way, not with a glowing screen.