At The Masters School, I can walk into the dining hall and hear three languages in five minutes. I pass friends headed to robotics, fencing, music groups, and the environmental club -- all before first period. I live and learn alongside students from across the country and around the world. Our community is diverse in where we come from, but also in how we think, what we believe in, and what motivates us. Everyone here burns with someone they love.

That’s the story I’ve been trying to tell.

As the Lead Features Editor and now Editor-in-Chief of Masters Tower, I’ve spent the past few years exploring how global issues, local events, and personal identity coincide in the daily lives of students and faculty. I’ve written about everything from AI in classrooms to immigration policy in our own backyard, not because those topics are trending, but because they spoke directly to the people around me.  At Masters, politics isn't abstract when your classmate's home state is at the center of a national debate. Faith isn’t theoretical when students carry it into the classroom from every corner of the world. And passion isn’t a buzzword when someone like Clover, a rifle shooter and aspiring doctor, sits next to you at a Model UN meeting. 

This school has taught me to write with empathy and nuance to reflect people’s full complexity and explore how background and ambition shape their stories. Journalism has given me the language and tools to connect those threads. What started as a curiosity has become a purpose: to write stories that make people feel seen, and to show how a single community can hold multitudes.