Journalism has been my teacher. Journalism has been my enemy. But more than anything, journalism became a place I kept retuning to — through both the high and lows of my high school career. 

Even when it unsettled me, I never left it. Because I soon learned the DISCOMFORT was part of the story — the place where truth surfaced and narratives took shape. Discomfort is the moment before clarity, where real stories found. $$$