As a biracial person, I’ve experienced exclusion and rejection from my own communities.
Shae Lake
Shae Lake is a senior at Vistamar School in El Segundo, California, an aspiring journalist, and a Senior Editor at Vistamar's school paper. Shae has also participated in journalism programs with The School of the New York Times and the University of Southern California.
Column: An open letter to COVID-19
To the coronavirus: I’ll be completely honest, when I first heard of your existence, I refused to take you seriously. It was in a news update email from Axios. I skimmed the email and threw it in the trash, not thinking about it for the rest of the day. That was until...