After moving to the Bronx from Georgia last year, Lisa Parks hoped to settle in by continuing to run on a track team at her new school, the Urban Assembly Bronx Academy of Letters. But she ran into a frustrating reality. “I was disappointed,” said Parks, “because I came to this school and they […]
Karina Hernandez
Karina Hernandez is an intern at The Hechinger Report. She will earn her M.S. in Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism with a focus on video storytelling and urban reporting in December 2018. Karina might judge you if you tell her you're a cat person.