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  • Writer's pictureMosaic 2018

Updated: Jun 27, 2018

By RICHARD NGUYEN | Mosaic



Joanne Winterstein, a longtime health teacher and girls basketball coach at Andrew P. Hill High School, remembers a student who dropped out of high school 10 years ago because she got pregnant. Sex education at the time, Winterstein said, failed to expose the student to information that might have helped prevent this.


Updated: Jun 27, 2018

By EMILY HUNG | Mosaic



The white police officers’ arms wrap around the black victim, strangling him. Stitched in bold, red letters across the victim’s face, “I can’t breathe” has come to symbolize Eric Garner’s plight July 17, 2014, when he died after an encounter with police in New York City.


This image, stitched onto a quilt by Yosief Teckle, questions the role of a police officer in today’s society.


  • Writer's pictureMosaic 2018

Updated: Jun 27, 2018

By SARAH GAO | Mosaic


When Mariana, an engineering student at San Jose State University, argued with her family, she was kicked out of her home. Suddenly, in her first year at the university, she was left homeless with only a few belongings.


Mariana struggled to stay afloat academically.


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