Deep space. Dying stars. A global mission to save Earth. One unlikely voyager: an amnesiac middle school science teacher.
Fernando Leiva
Fernando Leiva is a senior at Ulysses S. Grant High School in Van Nuys, California. An alumnus of the Asian American Journalists Association JCamp, he has previously worked with The Stanford Daily, USC Annenberg, and PBS News Student Reporting Labs, where he has covered immigration, education, politics, and entertainment. In his free time, he can be found reading fiction and exploring cafes around the city.
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Review: Braving struggle through absurdity in ‘Problemista’
In this debut A24 movie, Julio Torres manages to intertwine struggle with heartwarming satire in a little over 90 minutes that will leave you endeared to both Ale and Elizabeth’s relationship as both attempt to navigate the respective journeys they have set out to complete for themselves and for those they made promises to.
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Supreme Court declares affirmative action unconstitutional
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