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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: Chronicles of a racial imposter

by shaelake | Jan 9, 2022 | Opinion

As a biracial person, I’ve experienced exclusion and rejection from my own communities.

Column: An open letter to COVID-19

by shaelake | Jun 27, 2020 | Opinion

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...