Nana Winwah, '22
From Russia to the United States, Meet Dalia Timonina
Dalia Timonina is a Russian junior at Jamesville-Dewitt High School. In Russia she loved to dance. Her parents wished to immigrate to the United States. Timonina came to the United States with her older...
Tionne’s Journey
Tionne Gayle is a 17 year old sophomore from Kingston, Jamaica. It was her father’s decision to come to the United States four years ago as Gayle moved only with her father, leaving the...
Carissa Charles’ Journey to Syracuse
Carissa Charles is a 15 year old sophomore at Jamesville- Dewitt High School. After living in Syracuse for a few months after she was born, she moved to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where she spent most...
Welcome to Syracuse, Labib Ahsan!
Labib Ahsan is a 16 year old sophomore from Bangladesh. He has been in the United States for a little over a year. Ahsan's aunt already lived in the United States, which helped his...
J-DHS Welcomes Abdulaziz Abduvaliev
“I’m Abdulaziz from Uzbekistan, and we moved to the USA because we won the lottery called Green Card.”
Abdulaziz Abduvaliev is 18 years old and is now a senior at Jamesville-Dewitt High School. He is...
From Syria to Syracuse: J-DHS Welcomes Sophomore Faisal Alamir
Meet Faisal Alamir, he’s a sophomore from Syria. He has spent four months in Syracuse so far and is here with his family, including his mom, dad, and two sisters. His family’s choice to...
China’s Uighur Re-education Camps: Largest mass internment of an ethnic-religious group since World War...
Right now in China, Xinjiang China, there is mass incarceration of Muslims, Uighurs, in “re-education” camps, according to the Chinese government. We’ve heard of internment camps with Japanese Americans who were forced into relocation...