Humans of DV: Week 15

Sankalpa Bhuma: “My club is called DVHS Literary Alliance … Before I started the club and the inspiration for it was last year when I found an organization called the African Library Project. I don’t know if you saw the CSF drive last year, but that was me and my friends Sanjana Senthil and Shreya Ravikumar, and we had to collect 1000 books and 500 dollars to ship to a library in Ghana, and it ...

Alyssa Schexnayder: “I’ve been horseback riding for 11 years. [The first time I went horseback riding] was when I was 2 or 3. We used to live in Mississippi, and my mom, dad, and some of my family decided they wanted to go on a trail ride through the country and they took me with them. My mom put me in front of the saddle while she sat in the back, and we just went on the trail ride. And she p...

Aidan Mo: “I started advocating for climate change after the Camp Fire last year. I started advocating because I became angry that our home is burning down and politicians are doing nothing to aid it. My influential figures are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Greta Thunberg, who are strong progressive voices for the climate. Some people do not support me… [such as the] several climate deniers at DV ...