The Disability Perspective By Sarah Kim (Columbia)
On a brisk, early fall morning in 2016, I was getting coffee with one of my Iota sisters before my first class of the day. As seniors, we were already stressing about life after college, especially since many of our mutual friends were receiving job placements at consulting and financial firms. Amidst a chaotic presidential election that was weeks away, planning for post-graduate life seemed a bit too much to handle at the time.
I’d follow the average trajectory and work in finance or at a startup, like most of my peers were setting out to do. However, deep down, I always had a burning passion for writing and had recently started my writing internship at a nonprofit that mobilizes young people to create lasting changes in their communities and beyond. I had a handful of internships before this one but never felt a genuine connection to the work I was doing like I was at this internship.
Since I was an economics major, I thought
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