Listen to 21-year-old Sokhna — raised in Chicago, Illinois — share what it was like to participate in the Black Lives Matter protests in Indiana. Prior to the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, Sokhna was involved in the March for Our Lives protests against gun-violence. In the summer of 2019, she worked with the ACLU. She speaks on being 21 and fearless in the face of injustice, rubber bullets, and tear gas.

Growing up Sokhna lived in Illinois, Indiana, and Italy. She identifies as Black, biracial. Her dad is Senegalese. Her mom is Polish-Irish-Italian white American. Sokhna’s mom is my best-friend from my Junior School Year Abroad in Barcelona, Spain. As a medical professional her mom was called into hospitals during the Covid-19 pandemic to help run ventilators, because of the high surge of Covid-19 patients in hospitals.

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