Alethea Franklin

Alethea Franklin

Alethea Franklin is the student recipient of the Heartland Journalism Fellowship and a rising senior majoring in psychology and brain sciences, with a minor in writing, all in Arts & Sciences. She is also an executive board playwright with Black Anthology and a Gephardt Institute Fox-Clark Civic Scholar. Her writing explores the impacts of urban planning, design and infrastructure on housing and health outcomes in ethnic communities.

Posts by Alethea Franklin

Personal Essays

Politics, Protests, and Prose

While societal norms often discourage us from discussing politics, I found that this could not be further from the truth in D.C. Instead of causing a notorious Thanksgiving style blowout, it united people with a common passion. Not because we agreed on everything, but because we had chosen to entrench ourselves in politics to the […]