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By Muna Agwa 10th grade, Hathaway Brown School, OH With lines from "For an Agricultural Worker, Supporting His Family Means Being Separated from Them" by Ingrid Holmquist and Sana Malik, a Pulitzer Center reporting project The story of a father and a daughter, of a husband and a wife. Of two nations

By Savannah Powell 12th grade, Herriman High School, UT With lines from “‘Look After My Babies’: in Ethiopia, a Tigray Families Quest” by Cara Anna and Nariman El-Mofty When blood of Tigrayan red became a crime, We learned to paint our faces Our children are re-taught to introduce themselves

By Kavana Anklekar 12th grade, The Orbis School, India With lines from “‘Look After My Babies': In Ethiopia, A TigrayFamily's Quest” by Cara Anna and Nariman El-Mofty, a Pulitzer Center reporting project In Ethiopia, the cradle of humanity, Abraha gently caresses his wife’s pregnant belly. “Tell me

By Shirzad Mustafa 11th grade, Westfield High School, NJ With lines from “Indigenous in São Paulo: Erased by a Colonial Curriculum” by Jennifer Ann Thomas, a Pulitzer Center reporting project You would have us vanish, yet we are here, to prove that we exist incarnation of ancestral ways etched

By Zina Parker 8th grade, North Branch School, VA With lines from "Ballet and Bullets: Dancing out of the Favela" by Frederick Bernas and Rayan Hindi, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Bullets in the atmosphere, cutting short a flourishing career. Without letting her head drop, she continues on

By Emma Karn 12th grade, Sacred Heart Academy, PA 2nd place contest winner With lines from “‘Buzz of a Mosquito...But With the Sound of Grief’: The Lives of India’s Women Prisoners” by Jahnavi Sen, a Pulitzer Center reporting project A callous optimization problem: to fit 45 women in a room so small

By Mary Roche 11th grade, Eastchester High School, NY With lines from "The Farmer Trying to Save Italy’s Ancient Olive Trees" by Agostino Petroni, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Step into the ghost forest. The unearthly woodland is not haunted, Just dead. How do you kill the unkillable? The

By Emma Lee 9th grade, Stanton College Preparatory School, FL With lines from “Finding Moments of Grace and Gold in the Midst of a Pandemic” by Naomi Marcus, a Pulitzer Center reporting project i. a lukewarm berry engorged by a sticky web of dew and tears unfurling with the sour decay of reality

By Jacklyn Vandermel 10th grade, Northern Valley Regional High School, NJ 1st place contest winner With lines from “The Victims and Those Left Behind” by Mary F. Calvert, a Pulitzer Center reporting project claim 28 uranium mine, february 2020 bits of rheum like uranium glass form around the navajo

By Ares Bandebo-Cambra 3rd grade, Claire Lilienthal Elementary School, CA With lines from “Cielo’s Story #2: Fighting Loneliness” by Cielo Spini, a Pulitzer Center reporting project So long ago, I don’t remember when friends moved away to open schools and yards. My wings were clipped by zoom calls

By Oliver Lee 11th grade, Arrowhead Union High School, WI With lines from “ Georgia ‘Doesn’t Care About Me’: LGBTQ Struggles Worsen Under Lockdown ” by Chloé Lula, a Pulitzer Center reporting project The thing about fire is, it’s not just one color. It’s orange, yes, and yellow and white, and blue

By Kayla Maame Sarpong Kessie 11th grade, SOS-Hermann Gmeiner International College, Ghana With lines from “COVID’s Darkest Effects: How the Pandemic May Fuel Child Trafficking in Ghana” by Kira Leadholm, a Pulitzer center reporting project Fields of cassava stretch, green, bountiful, not enough

The second quarter of 2021 was another period of extraordinary, surprising growth for the Pulitzer Center. Extraordinary given the many different ways we’ve grown. Surprising in that all this activity was taking place—and thriving—under the continued challenges of the pandemic. The 13 full-time

This letter features reporting from “The Great Climate Migration” by Abrahm Lustgarten and Meridith Kohut Dear Representative Jones, Congratulations on winning the election! My name is Alexa Troob, and I am a freshman at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York. While I am too young to vote

This letter features reporting from "How China’s High-Tech ‘Eyes’ Monitor Behavior and Dissent" by Nick Schifrin and Dan Sagalyn Dear Congresswoman Norton, According to the World Economic Forum, analysts project that we will create 463 exabytes, or over 200 million DVDs of digital data daily by 2025

This letter features reporting from “Jailing the Mentally Ill” by John Yang and Frank Carlson Dear Mayor Bill de Blasio, Perhaps it’s only in the long run, if at all, that we recognize the impact of a teacher cold-calling us in class, a parent making us lunch for school every day, a friend stating

This letter features reporting from “What They Saw: Ex-Prisoners Detail the Horrors of China's Detention Camps” by Alison Killing and Megha Rajagopalan Dear Senator Klobuchar, I’m Mia Wolfe. I am a sixth grade student at Heilicher Minneapolis Jewish Day School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am writing

This letter features reporting from "The Many Varieties of Voter Suppression" by Brittany Gibson Dear Senator Wicker, Racial injustices have become very prevalent in modern times with the tragic death of George Floyd rocking our nation to its core. Racial discrimination persists throughout America