I wrote this piece as a fellow for the 2025 Whipple Writing Fellowship, which equips high school students to research and write narrative non-fiction pieces on topics of their choice. I decided to write about multigenerational living, connecting it both to my experience growing up with a culture that celebrates such living arrangements and to the recent trend of America’s adult children moving back in with their parents. This piece is published on the Whipple Writing Fellowship website.

This piece was written for speech competitions in 2025 and was intended to be spoken in the Original Oratory event. It addresses my take on how individualism in American society can be a harmful force, referencing statistical evidence as well as my own analysis of my life experiences.

This piece was written for speech competitions in 2024 and was intended to be spoken in the Original Oratory event. It addresses the problems that stem from our societal emphasis on conspicuous consumption, both from an anecdotal and research perspective.