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Abigail is a rising senior at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies in Mid-City, Los Angeles. She has been a staff writer for her school paper for three years and is the Copy Editor and Page Editor for the paper. Abigail has lived in Koreatown for her entire life. She has a passion for baking, reading, and creative writing. She’s fluent in English and Korean and has studied Spanish at her school for four years. She’s the President of BRIDGE, a high school volunteering program at KYCC, and she also works at Sul & Beans, a dessert cafe in Koreatown. In the future, she hopes to go into Sociology or Political Science.

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Mia is a high school sophomore at Larchmont Charter School. She’s been going to school in Koreatown for about four years. She has taken an active role in improving the community. She is very involved in her school’s Community Service committee and is a member of the Girls Build L.A. club, which works on different projects to help the neighborhood. She has been working as a waitress at the Solheim Lutheran Retirement Home in Eagle Rock during this COVID-19 pandemic. She volunteered there many times before officially getting a job. She hands out meals for the residents and helps out in the kitchen. It has proved to be a very meticulous and important job during the pandemic, as most of the residents are at-risk.

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Sally is a sophomore at Larchmont Charter School in Los Angeles. She is currently the head of the first journalism club at her school and the editor of the yearbook. She has taken many classes involving photography and filmmaking. She is very politically active and partakes in various service activities. She tries to limit her impact on the environment by being a pescatarian and thrifting clothes to continue to fuel her love of fashion. Some of her favorite things include rain, sunsets, scented candles, and the beach. She hopes to find an intersection between political journalism and photography for her future career.

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