Upon learning he had prostate cancer in his 40s, Richard Dieguez, who goes by Xiomáro, began to rethink his career as an attorney. Years after his diagnosis, the lifelong New...

The first time Eshani Surya wrote about her ulcerative colitis was for a writing class assignment at NYU. She began the short story not long after receiving her diagnosis, and...

Diane Hodson spent nearly a decade in the public school system teaching global history, often working with students who had recently moved to the United States. Using film to engage...

By 2021, Steinhardt alum Amy Gabrielle had built a stable career as an administrator at Columbia University. That year, Gabrielle, then 54, lost her husband to a rare cancer. She...

When Ken Schneck launched The Buckeye Flame — Ohio’s only newsroom centered on LGBTQ+ issues — in 2020, he placed a section at the top of its homepage encouraging others...

Dylan Shanks’ path into the music industry didn’t begin in a recording studio or corporate office, but rather the NYU Program Board — a student-run organization...

When Kiara Ventura first arrived at NYU in 2014, she had plenty of experience as a student journalist as the founder of her high school’s first online newspaper. Determined...

When WSN first spoke with Chloe Xiang in 2019, she was a Steinhardt first-year trying to bolster the magazine that she wished existed while growing up — one that centered around...

The first time Gwen Whittle created sounds for a movie with its own language was as a sound designer for 2009’s “Avatar” — the highest-grossing film of all time — for...

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, then-Gallatin student Jimmy Tsoulos split his time between online classes and long shifts at his family’s Greek restaurant, Avra. Even...

Zach Schofel left behind a career in real estate at 22 years old to start Eastman Residential, which buys underutilized student accommodations at a significant discount and converts...

Shiv Soin was a CAS sophomore when millions of people across the world took to the streets to demand urgent climate policy reform in September 2019. After he recognized a lack...