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Amira McKee
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Student, Columbia University
New York
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Biography
Amira McKee is journalist and student at Columbia College studying sociology and creative writing. She was born and raised somewhere between Missouri, New York, and Montana, and accordingly, shamelessly sprinkles “y’all” into every conversation. When she’s not sitting down with local leaders or campaigning against overhead lighting, she can be found spending her work study on coffee at Hungarian Pastry Shop. She currently serves as a City News Editor at the Columbia Daily Spectator and an intern at NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. She previously interned at ABCNY and at the Bronx Times.
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By Sarah Huddleston, Esha Karam, Shea Vance, Amira McKee| Columbia Daily Spectator Verified “I wanted to show my daughter the process and that it’s important to vote as a citizen, like to exercise our freedom for our right to vote,” David Jang, a West Harlem resident who cast his ballot at the Grant Houses, said. He said that despite the tense climate nationally, West Harlem has not felt the division. “It’s our voice as a people. It’s our voices of people to be able to have a say in what we believe is a right way of living, a right way of thinking,” Eubanks said.
By Ruth Weaver, Amira McKee| Columbia Daily Spectator Verified “It was hard to cover because you didn’t know what was going on inside,” Smith said as she waited in line for the press entrance on April 20. “So a lot of it was like monitoring Twitter from students that were inside or the handful of reporters that managed to get inside on that first and second day.” “I wasn’t expecting it to be this intense,” Doradea said. “Being here on campus, what we’re going through, this is what we’re living through.
By Ruth Weaver, Amira McKee| Columbia Daily Spectator Verified “I wasn’t expecting it to be this intense,” Doradea said. “Being here on campus is, what we’re going through, this is what we’re living through. But you know, seeing so much press, seeing how it became like a media circus, I really just feel the impact we’re having on the amount of people we’re reaching, and the effect we can have.”
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New York, United States