Joseph Taylor • 23 • East Orange, NJ 4/27/20 Joseph Taylor • 23 • East Orange, NJ 4/27/20

Finding Myself

I didn’t know I needed to slow down until I did.

Ashley Mendoza • 20 • Newark, NJ 4/24/20 Ashley Mendoza • 20 • Newark, NJ 4/24/20

College Interrupted

It’s hard trying to comprehend how one epidemic can easily shift the lives of so many people.

Jacob Amaro • 18 • Paterson, NJ 4/21/20 Jacob Amaro • 18 • Paterson, NJ 4/21/20

Holy Week

For Catholics around the world, these past few days were part of Holy Week — a week in the Liturgical Calendar dedicated to the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus.

Jacob Amaro • 18 • Paterson, NJ 4/12/20 Jacob Amaro • 18 • Paterson, NJ 4/12/20

Finding Home

Home, which is for me the house I live in with my parents and seven siblings, has always been paradoxical in nature.

Jullya Viana • 17 • Newark, NJ 4/10/20 Jullya Viana • 17 • Newark, NJ 4/10/20

Entering Isolation

When the news began reporting on the coronavirus, I was still in school going to class like I always do.

Francisco Perez • 18 • Newark, NJ 4/9/20 Francisco Perez • 18 • Newark, NJ 4/9/20

New Routines

In the midst of all this madness there is a light.