Keona Dordor

Keona Dordor is the student recipient of the Heartland Journalism Fellowship and a rising senior at Washington University in St. Louis majoring in urban studies, with a double-minor in writing and in religious studies, all in Arts & Sciences. She is also a Chancellor’s Career Fellow and a Gephardt Institute Fox-Clark Civic Scholar. Born in Accra, Ghana, Dordor was raised in Nashville, Tennesee, since age nine, when her family relocated to the United States. Her writing explores themes and issues of religion and the challenges facing her generation.

Posts by Keona Dordor

A Taylor Swift Fan Experiences the Rites of the Altar—But From a Distance

    The people heading toward Arrowhead Stadium in the late afternoon of July 7th are not decked out in the red and gold garb of the local, prolifically successful football team, the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs. Nor are they dressed in the merchandise of an opposition team; our only enemies are the […]