StudentNation

StudentNation is a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism and is made possible through generous funding from the Puffin Foundation. StudentNation focuses on first-person accounts from student activists, organizers, and journalists and has helped launch the careers of contributors to The New York TimesVoxBusiness InsiderTeen Vogue, the Guardian, and more. If you’re a student and you have an article idea, please send pitches and questions to [email protected]

Parkland Protest

When Your Home Gets Hit: In Response to the Parkland Shootings When Your Home Gets Hit: In Response to the Parkland Shootings

I not only have a heavy heart, but I have an infuriated soul. I am mad. Parkland has gotten mad. Florida has gotten mad. America needs to get mad.

Feb 23, 2018 / StudentNation / Zoe Zbar

U Wisconsin campus

Disaster Capitalism Hits Higher Education in Wisconsin Disaster Capitalism Hits Higher Education in Wisconsin

The president of the University of Wisconsin System is trying to reconcile a well-funded assault on public institutions with the state’s deep blue sea of support for accessible edu...

Feb 23, 2018 / StudentNation / Rachel Ida Buff

Mental Illness College

We Need to Address the Mental-Health-Care Imbalance for Students of Color We Need to Address the Mental-Health-Care Imbalance for Students of Color

Campus mental-health care is already inaccessible and often not attuned to students’ needs—add to that systemic oppression, and feeling better seems impossible.

Feb 21, 2018 / StudentNation / Gabriela Thorne

University of Pittsburgh

These Students Used Twitter to Make a Racist Group Chat Public These Students Used Twitter to Make a Racist Group Chat Public

As white-supremacist propaganda appears more frequently on college campuses, do students have a right to know who thinks it’s a joke?

Feb 15, 2018 / StudentNation / Jordana Rosenfeld

Climate change protest

Climate Change Isn’t Just About the Planet Climate Change Isn’t Just About the Planet

It’s about justice: racial, social, socioeconomic, reproductive, and environmental. It’s about immigration reform, LGBTQIA+ rights, and religious freedom.

Feb 7, 2018 / StudentNation / Leehi Yona

Nogales border wall

These Students Learn About State Violence at the Busiest Border Patrol Sector in the Country These Students Learn About State Violence at the Busiest Border Patrol Sector in the Country

This program shows students how to understand and oppose the violence happening at the US/Mexico border.

Feb 1, 2018 / StudentNation / Gabriel Matthew Schivone

George Zimmerman trial

In the Legal System, Talking White Is a Precursor to Justice—and That’s Wrong In the Legal System, Talking White Is a Precursor to Justice—and That’s Wrong

If the legal system keeps treating AAE as a lesser form of English, it can never claim to view black people with the same legitimacy as white people.

Jan 29, 2018 / StudentNation / Jordana Rosenfeld

Black Lives Matter Harvard

For Students of Color, Ivy League Schools Have a Long Way to Go For Students of Color, Ivy League Schools Have a Long Way to Go

You may have entered an elite institution, but, as a student of color, you hardly feel welcome.

Jan 25, 2018 / StudentNation / Gabriela Thorne

Manhattan Detention Center

These Students Are Teaming Up to Pay Dollar Bails for Detained New Yorkers These Students Are Teaming Up to Pay Dollar Bails for Detained New Yorkers

The Dollar Bail Brigade has freed 78 people and grown into a network of more than 600 volunteers.

Jan 22, 2018 / StudentNation / Mary Akdemir

#MeToo March

What Moira Donegan Did for Young Women Writers What Moira Donegan Did for Young Women Writers

Young women writers who want to make their voices heard will follow her example in the years to come.

Jan 12, 2018 / StudentNation / Jordana Rosenfeld

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