EDITORS malak shahin, editor-in-chief
/ Malak Shahin is a Palestinian-American writer and creator currentl y based in Minneapolis. She is an aspiring human rights activist with the goal of building Ascend into a larger media collective for people of color to create work for us, with us, and by us. Right now, she is a college student, navigating what it means to be a woman of color at a PWI. / @shawarmahoe on twitter
moira ramirez, managing editor / Moira is a 19year old writer/artist and aspiring history student from Mexico. /@mantology on instagram
tamira amin, submissions editor /
Tamira Amin is an undergrad at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She was the Editor-in-Chief of the online publication Fresh U Minnesota and is currentl y getting ready to launch a podcast. In between classes, Tamira performs spoken word and is developing a chapbook of her written poems to publish. / @tamtam_tweets on twitter / @tamtam_pics on instagram
diana khong, creative director /Diana Khong is a queer poet and artist of color from Massachusetts. Her work takes on modern colonization, life post-diaspora, and what it feels like to be a Vietnamese woman in a white man’s America. She is 16. /@oldadams on twitter / @grisiy on tumblr
elisa luna-ady, social media editor / Elisa Luna-Ady is a 17-year-old Chicana living in Southern California. She likes writing poetry that examines in-between spaces and the human body as it relates to identity. / @astronomyhoe on twitter
