Writing

In this episode, Lydia Burleson and Kay Barrett, both PhD candidates in the English department at Stanford, talk about their respective journeys to Stanford and KHS, the life and challenges of being a PhD candidate, some literary hot takes, and so much more. Listen and subscribe: Apple or Spotify

The U.S. Census Bureau recently announced its 2022 poverty statistics. According to The New York Times, poverty in America had seen its highest annual increase on record. By the bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, one in eight Americans doesn’t have enough money to pay rent, to buy groceries, to survive, let alone live. One in eight Americans. Nearly forty

America is one of the wealthiest nations on Earth, yet it has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. One in nine Americans lives below the poverty line, and 38 million people can’t afford basic necessities. Despite America’s GDP growing to $26 trillion in 2022, its poverty level hasn’t significantly budged since 1970. Why, in

Wrote human-centered communications that centered the 1000+ students and community members working with the organization. Read my clips here.

Nonfiction essay about a disastrous phone call with my mother, selected from my nonfiction thesis My Mother’s Daughter Awards Jonathan Edwards Creative Writing Prize Honorable Mention, Yale Daily News Magazine Wallace Prize Read here.

Argued for increased resources and visibility for first-generation low-income students at Yale. Read clippings here.

essay that analyzes Black American author Gwendolyn Brooks’s shift in style and her exploration of Black autonomy. Read here.

Wrote about often invisible experiences of first-generation low-income students at Yale. Read my clippings here.