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Huiwen is a first-year at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA. She is a Chinese-American who grew up in New York City, USA and China. Through founding a platform that amplifies the voices of marginalized communities, Huiwen hopes to to motivate other POC youth to engage in advocacy and collectively fight for social justice. In addition to Detester Magazine, Huiwen conducts research and projects in health sciences. She is interested in the social impact of science and technology, particularly the use of technology to reduce racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health and healthcare. In her free time, Huiwen loves creating art, making collages, and watching movies.

Anju is 17 and a junior at Bard High School Early College Manhattan. She is passionate about social and environmental justice. In her free time, she enjoys reading and doing robotics.

Theo Brandt is a junior at Bard High School Early College, Manhattan. He produces research-based art and writing for the magazine. Artistically, he is passionate about pushing conceptual boundaries, which he believes is central to Detester's mission. His hobbies and interests include philosophy and thrift shopping.

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Ivy is a senior attending Stuyvesant High School in NYC. She joined the Detester team because she is passionate about advocating for social justice issues such as Black Lives Matter and promoting youth activism. During her free time, she indulges in drawing, talking to friends, and watching anime.

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Dorothy Chan is a senior at Brooklyn Technical High School located in New York City. She joined the Detester team because she wanted to uplift underrecognized issues and the voices of marginalized communities. Through the projects at Detester, she wants to encourage other POC youth to participate in social activism and civic engagement. Her interests particularly lie in the intersection of environmental and racial justice, as well as gender equality. In her free time, she enjoys testing out new recipes and embroidering.

Mahi is a Plant Sciences undergrad from University of Delhi, India. She is a passionate advocate for promoting the rights of women and youth. In her free time she can be seen reading, painting or learning Greek and Latin.

Sophie is a grade 11 student from Oakville, Canada. As a Chinese-Canadian, she hopes to shed light on issues in BIPOC communities and help others embrace their cultures. In her free time, you can find Sophie playing tennis, reading, or binging through a good show.

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Chloe Mshana is a 16-year-old based in the Washington, D.C. area. She's a passionate advocated for mental health and positive social change. When she isn't working on her latest project, you can occasionally find her dancing to her favorite playlist. At 3 AM.

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Kit is a freshman at Macaulay Honors College in NYC. She’s particularly passionate about feminism and women’s rights, alongside class and environmental issues. In her free time, she enjoys reading and writing.

Ashleigh Vogel is a college student at the University of Pittsburgh studying Biochemistry and Chinese. She enjoys researching about the enviroment and specifically the sociopolitical aspect that is involved in saving the enviroment. Being a Chinese adoptee, she is also actively involved in bringing Asian problems and opression to light. In her free time, she works and volunteers at various animal shelters along with learning various languages.

Mary Angelic Balderas, A 19-year-old and senior high school graduate of multimedia arts at Iacademy. Currently studying the college course of Multimedia Arts at De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, School of Design and Arts. She resides at Antipolo City in the country of the Philippines. She is eager to enlighten and make others aware of the matters that are happening around the globe through the use of art and illustration. Mary is a young ambitious and passionately driven gal who learns at her own pace. After she has done her time after class, she likes to take the time on doing freelance and creating more craft. Other than that, She likes to play badminton and do tons of cycling!

She/They Suzanna is an arguably eccentric but #ActuallyAutistic first-year undergraduate student at University College London (UCL). She joined the Detester team because of her passion for promoting awareness and encouraging action on various social justice issues—especially disability discrimination (which, similar to most of society's injustices, disproportionally affects the BIPOC community). Besides writing—as a writer at Detester—Suzanna enjoys making questionable sounds on her violin that she likes to think are "music."

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Newt is a writer and theatre practitioner based in Tampa and Rhode Island. He writes most often about religion and politics, because he was told too many times as a kid not to bring those kinds of things up at the dinner table.

Lillian is a 15 year old rising junior in highschool who lives in Los Angeles, CA.She is extremely passionate about breaking the stigma around mental illnesses and disorders, as well as raising awareness for social injustices that she feels deserves an elevated platform in the media.In her free time, Lillian loves to paint, volunteer, play soccer, and ultimately try to inspire the people around her.

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Harvi Karatha is a incoming first-year student at the University of Toronto. Harvi spends her time contemplating her life decisions and how the world could change for the better. Harvi joined Detester because of the level of sincerity and passion she saw in the pieces.

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Anna is a senior at the Orange County School of the Arts in Santa Ana, California. She joined Detester in July 2020, inspired by the mottos and writers of Detester. Anna is particularly passionate about mental health disparities, women's rights, and climate change. In her free time, Anna enjoys window shopping, chrysanthemum tea, and listening to SEVENTEEN.

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Vasco is a senior at Indiana University High School. He joined Detester Magazine because he believes in the importance of empowering BIPOC youth through education. He wants to help educate students like him about racial issues so they can advocate for their rights and be involved in politics. In his spare time, he reads Murakami or plays with Legos.

My name is Mary and I’m currently a sophomore in high school. I’m 15 and I live in California! Topics that I’m really passionate are mainly politics, current events and medicine. These things really meaningful to me because I think it’s important to talk about these current events that are affecting our society and try to bring awareness about them. Mary’s hobbies include dancing, reading, writing, and practicing the guitar.

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Roxanne is a high school junior living in Princeton, New Jersey. She has worked with Detester as a Social Media Manager since August of 2020. She joined Detester because as a woman of color, she thinks it is very important to discuss and advocate for issues that minority groups face. She is passionate about intersectional activism. In her free time you could find her hanging out with friends, listening to music, shopping at the mall, or baking a dessert!

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Asma is a college student from the UK who joined detester to write and amplify social justice issues which affect POC.

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Joyce is a freshman at Ryerson University located in Toronto, Ontario. She is passionate about all things mental health, and is hoping to use her platform to spread awareness towards the matter alongside other social injustice topics in the world. In her free time, Joyce likes to read, watch Greys Anatomy, and spend time with friends.

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Danica Seto is a high school sophomore from Massachusetts. She loves ranting about social justice issues, politics, and activism. Writing is something she does to start conversations and engage in proactive change. Danica spends her free time working on community problem solving projects, reading sappy romances, and listening to too much Mitski..

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Ify Chidi is a senior at Heritage High School in Brentwood California. She loves video editing and joined Detester to help amplify BIPOC voices while being able to do what she enjoys. In her free time she likes playing tennis and reading.

Grace is a 16-year old high school junior from Seattle, Washington. She is passionate about destigmatizing mental illnesses and advocating for gender equality. Grace's interests include art, writing, reading, and watching Criminal Minds.

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Michaela Capulong (18) is a senior at Huntington Beach High School in Huntington Beach, California. She joined the detester team in the content department because she is passionate about writing and elevating BIPOC voices. Outside from academics and dance, she enjoys passing the time by reading and listening to music. She can usually be seen drinking something caffeinated.

Storm Butti is a sophomore at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, currently studying architecture. She wants to explore the relationship between people and the spaces they occupy to help lead a future that is welcoming and equitable for everyone. She loves to go on long walks when it rains and listens to too much emo music.

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El is 17 years old and a senior at New Smyrna Beach High School in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. She joined Detester because of her passion for social justice and spreading feminist ideals. In her free time, she enjoys reading thriller novels, keeping up on the latest fashion trends, and watching Marvel movies.

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River is a junior at Cheltenham High School, who enjoys art, sociopolitical and environmental advocacy, eating, reading, and learning world history. River joined Detester to have an outlet on which to write about current events outside of the school environment, with a unique stylistic twist. River is a stubborn underdog supporter, and found Detester a perfect fit for this increasingly important attitude.

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Maya is a writer, historical fiction reader, and cherry tomato enthusiast attending high school in Los Angeles, California. She joined Detester to further learn and develop as a writer and politically involved advocate, and looks forward to exploring new realms of media. When not arguing with her brother, you’ll likely find Maya passionately defending the Oxford Comma, eating Cherry Garcia ice cream, or taking infinite photos of her dog.

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Rohan Subramaniam is 16 years old, and a high school senior from Greenwich, Connecticut. He's passionate about being a part of modern journalism, and finding a voice for himself and his peers; he is especially interested in the role poetry can play in journalism and how it can change society - he joined the Detester team in order to pursue this passion and make a difference with his writing. He is also a musician, and plays the electric bass and viola; as well, he loves to cook and explore different cultures through food.

Jamee Ganal is a 16 year old junior, attending Chaparral High School located in California. She is passionate about issues such as environmental racism, xenophobia, and injustice towards the black community. She often makes art about things that make her mad, but also spends her free time playing music or meditating.

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Kareena is an Undergraduate Student at Ahmedabad University, India. She joined the detester team as she is curious to learn about various socio-political issues from multiple perspectives and also glad to contribute in amplifying youth voices. In her free time, she enjoys reading poetry and web comics, meditating and doodling.

Eeman is 16 and a Y11 student at GEMS Cambridge International in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She is passionate about activism and the implementation of social justice across the world. Her goal is to become more socially and politically engaged with the issues faced by marginalised peoples. In her free time, you can find her writing poems, short stories and novels; reading; and watching documentaries for fun. Her main goal though is to try to make the world better, even if it is one tiny step at a time.

Aliza Shahab is a 17 year old junior at Dublin High School, in Dublin, California! She's passionate about BIPOC storytelling, creative representation in media, and uplifting youth voices in order to do so. Aliza loves to read and, watch movies, and listen to music, so recommendations are always welcome!

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Sophia is a sophomore at IBSH, a bilingual school in Hsinchu, Taiwan! She’s passionate with the inner workings of systematic racism and how it impacts the BIPOC community on multiple levels and also is invested in minority representation in media and pop culture. In her spare time, she loves watching tiktoks, rapping any line of Nicki Minaj, debating, playing volleyball, and writing/reading literature. Sophia is super pumped to be the host of Déteste This! and is ready to dive into many different topics.

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Gabby Schmitt is a graduate of Carthage College with a major in Studio Art and Geosciecne and she is currently studying graphic design at University of Minnesota Duluth while living in Wisonsin, United States. She is passionate about saving the envionment, gay rights, and women's rights. Currently Gabby likes to spend time working in her sketchbook and go hiking with her boyfriend.

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Kenny is currently a senior at a NYC Specialized High School. Serving as both an editor and web developer, he is very passionate about finding the bridge between the liberal arts and engineering. Through STEM, he sees the chance to bring social issues to light, and hopefully to one day resolve them. In his free time, Kenny enjoys reading manga and playing Genshin Impact (he is proud to main Ayaka!).

Chloe is currently a 16 year old junior at the Bronx High School of Science in NYC. She is passionate about writing, educational equality, and AAPI rights. In her free time, she enjoys curating playlists, talking with her friends, and playing video games.

Lucy is a sophomore high school student in NYC. She is a passionate advocate for the fair justice system and bringing awareness to social inequality issues. She hates how biased the justice system is and how people can get away with crimes. In her free time, she likes to do freelance work, create eCommerce websites, reading the news, and trying out different foods in NYC. She loves technology.

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Elyssa is a junior at the Lycée Francais du Caire in Cairo, Egypt. She is passionate about international relations and promoting social activism among underprivileged youth. In her free time, she can be found binging true crime podcasts, learning about random topic, playing the piano or adding new films to her watch list!

Mazen is a 17 year old rising senior in Dhahran, KSA. He is very passionate about the right to self-determination and Human rights around the world. He would most likely spend his free-time playing football or a night out in the desert with friends.

YanPing is a high school junior born in China but was raised in NYC. She is passionate about spreading awareness on BIPOC inequalities and youth activism through art and media. When she is not creating art, you can find her baking, reading, and binge watching shows.

Sierra is currently studying Legal Studies at Central Piedmont College and Project Management at North Carolin University at Charlotte. Sierra is passionate about creating a better world for the next generation of poc, women and creating change within the justice system. In her free time, she enjoys music, blogging and time with her family.

Allison is a 16 year old high school junior from St. Louis, Missouri. She is passionate about advocating for social justice causes through creative expression and public speaking. In her free time, she enjoys painting, creating playlists on Spotify, and rewatching episodes of Black Mirror.

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Brian Nguyen is a high school senior from Chicago, Illinois. He is passionate about film and theater, and hopes to one day help bridge the gap between underrepresented minorities in the film industry. He spends his free time playing guitar and watching SNL.

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Kennedy is a sixteen year old writer from Atlanta, Georgia. She is currently in her senior year of high school, and she is passionate about ending economic exploitation, ending systemic racism, and much more. Her favorite musical artists are Hozier and Dolly Parton, and outside of writing, in her free time, she enjoys playing piano, spending time with friends, and searching for the next best book to read.

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Anushka is a 15-year-old high school student activist and writer from Mumbai, India. She is passionate about journalism and world politics, and loves engaging in conversation about social justice. Apart from advocacy though, Anushka likes playing the keyboard, drawing on Procreate, and sometimes going on walks with her family too! She is also the founder of the websiteCabinet of Curiosities and Press Plunge - an app that makes news-reading a more immersive experience!

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Unmani Tewari is a 15 year old in 11th grade studying at Aditya Birla World Academy, located in Mumbai, Inida. She is passionate about issues such as homophobia, racisim, and injustice towards the minorities. She spends her free time doing art, reading fantasy novels or watching netflix.

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Alice Lei is a rising senior attending high school in San Diego County. Currently, she is radicalizing as an activist, striving to educate herself and fight for change.

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Riti is a bisexual teenager from India. The reason she joined Detester was because she noticed that brown teenagers currently living in Asia are underrepresented in activism. She wishes to shine a spotlight on issues from the Indian subcontinent that deserve more global attention. She likes to read- especially fantasy, and also write stories. She's obsessed with anime and kdramas, and her favourite cuisine is Thai. She's very passionate about media and marketing, and it is her dream to make an impact in that industry one day.

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Zeina is a high school junior in Texas, USA. She likes to have fun and make good things happen. Above all, she values building friendships with people, learning their stories, and helping them pursue their passions. You can find her dancing, adventuring, or crafting with anything she can get her hands on. She's absolutely delighted to be a part of the Detester team!

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Myesha Phukan is a high school freshman living in the Bay Area. She is passionate about social issues, as well as amplifying the voices of POC and women, and hopes to communicate that through her writing. She loves to read and write, and has unhealthy obsession with buying books every day.

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Wendy is a 17-year-old senior at Bard High School Early College Manhattan in New York City. She joined Detester Magazine because she believes in the importance of youth activism. She is also passionate about social justice issues such as racial inequality and poverty. You can find Wendy shopping with her friends, reading, or binging Netflix shows during her free time.

Madeeha is a seventeen-year-old writer from Marietta, Georgia. She is a high school senior and deeply invested in advocating for marginalized groups across America. She spends her free time absorbed in fictional worlds, writing poetry and short stories, and advocating for change in her community. On weekends, she enjoys cooking, spending time with her friends, and going on morning runs.

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Vivian Huang is a sophomore at University High School, Irvine. She joined Detester Magazine with the purpose of promoting values of youth activism as well as amplifying socio-political issues many POC face through her writing. In her free time, Vivian enjoys watching anime and listening to pop music. She also loves listening to film soundtracks while studying.

Mackenzie Pritchard is a senior at Coffman High School, which is located in Dublin Ohio. She joined Destester Magazine as a writer, passionate about climate change, women's rights, and marginalization of minorities. You'll probably find her chilling at the library with friends, watching Netflix, or playing video games.

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Ro is a 16-year-old high school senior from the Philippines. They are passionate about giving a voice to minorities who are often dismissed and rarely listened to. They love horror, art, and alternative bands like The Garden and Eraserheads.

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Summer LaPointe is a 25-year-old editor and writer currently based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are passionate about supporting those who are actively silenced in order to promote greater understanding of true human experience that embraces more than the select privileged few. In their free time, xe enjoys exploring nature, playing video games, and attending electronic music shows and festivals.