Jesse Hardman is the founder of the Listening Post Collective, a national engaged journalism project, a regular contributor to NPR and a mentor for the Los Angeles-based community newspaper Boyle HeightsBeat.
Her cousin was killed in a school shooting, but this exchange student decided to stay in the US
Sabika Sheikh was killed along with seven other classmates and two teachers at Santa Fe High School in Texas last May. Her cousin, Shaheera Jalil Albasit, wants to keep building peace.