By Bethany Ao, GSS correspondent PARIS — Asher Jay's Twitter profile @AsherJayNYC defines her goal and her process — "Asher Jay creates to comment, conserve and contribute" as "a designer, artist, writer and activist" through art, design installations, film, and advertising. But…
By Bethany Ao, GSS correspondent PARIS — [Editor's note: GSS news editor Bethany Ao is attending COY11 in Paris, where she met Diana Ríos, a leader of the Asheninka people in Peru. In September 2014, four activists in Pullcalpa, in Peru’s…
By Jack Hennessy, GSS correspondent STANFORD, California — As the world continues to mourn for Paris in the wake of last Friday’s terror attacks, students at a vigil held at Stanford University on Sunday questioned why the show of solidarity did not extend…
STOCKTON, California — President Obama, GOP presidential candidates, and U.S. governors spoke out today on the subject of Islam and Muslim migrants today amid growing calls for restrictions on refugee flows. In a press conference in Antalya, Turkey, where he attended a…
By Kiran Dwivedi, GSS correspondent It’s only four kilometers wide and 160 kilometers long, but it’s one of the most militarized, mysterious and ultimately meaningful borders in the world — the Demilitarized Zone that divides North and South Korea. Before I moved…
When it comes to visualizing change, infographics, logos, and editorial cartoons can be a push towards thinking outside the lines and finding solutions to problems — even one as big as erasing a footprint equal to 50 tons of carbon emissions.…
OAKLAND, California — What am I going to do today? Who am I going to meet? Am I going to have the same friends in class as last year? No matter where in the world they are, these are the questions on…
Maidan Nezalezhnosti — the Ukraine's "Independence Square," the heart of Kiev and the focus of protests beginning in November 2013 and ending in February 2014 — was the focus of two of Sequoia's student groups. A website created by one…
We're happy to announce the winners of our first-ever World News News Challenge, which asked students around the world a simple but ultimately complex question: "What do you want to know about Africa that the media isn't already telling you?"…
What if Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, the politically-minded student at the heart of "Crime and Punishment," had a Tumblr page? It might look something like "Radical Raskolnikov," the blog that a team of Sequoia students created to showcase their growing interest in…