Students embarked on what was marketed as a life-changing leadership experience. But they may not have gotten what they signed up for.
It's dinnertime. Palo Al...
A group of students sit huddled in a darkened room, eyes focused on a young speaker who holds up a model fetus. Gesturing, she exclaims that its fingers and toe...
It’s hot and sticky outside in the summer air, but inside the theater, the breeze of the air conditioning and fragrance of freshly popped popcorn engulf the sen...
Smart, driven, ambitious. Yeardley Love, a promising University of Virginia student, embodied the ideal of a model student. She excelled in school and was a var...
From the 30-ton ENIAC (the world’s first all-electronic computer) to the 174-gram iPhone X, the role of computers in education, society, and even daily life has...
With a warm smile, Palo Alto Unified School District’s newly-appointed Title IX coordinator, Megan Farrell, walks into the conference room and begins to tell he...
What does it mean to be an activist? Does it mean physically attending a women’s march waving signs that demand equality? Or does being an activist mean writing...
The presidential election. The hubbub over the President’s 4 a.m. tweets. The negative press covfefe. All these events, and countless others, would have been co...
"Ugh, I have so many tests this week! There’s no way I can handle everything.” “You’re so lucky. You got the easier teacher.”
Walking down the halls of Palo Al...
The push for gender equality in the technology industry is unfair, divisive and discriminates against men. Biologically, women are not suited for the tech workp...
Riya (Class of 2019) is a former features editor and staff writer for Verde Magazine. She enjoys reading, writing and traveling the world. She is passionate about women's rights and society. Through journalism, Riya enjoys telling extraordinary narratives in order to drive change and fight injustice. She is the co-founder of Fuzia, a website for women to empower themselves through creativity.
