The Middle Ground Journal

Meet Our NSR Student Editors – Maria Olivares, Assistant Editor – The North Star Reports – Sponsored by The College of St. Scholastica and The Middle Ground Journal

Maria Olivares, NSR Assistant Editor. Major/minor: Global, Cultural, and Language Studies with a minor in Political Science Intended Graduation year: 2016, Year starting with NSR: 2012

I am a Venezuelan international student with a lot of interest in studying culture, diversity, and the dynamics of power and privilege. My studies so far have allowed me to pick up several lenses I can use to edit and write reports and that allow me to see things from anthropological, power and privilege, and linguistic angles. I am naturally inquisitive and spend a lot of my time applying concepts or ideas I have picked up to everyday situations.

I began volunteering for the North Star Reports as a freshman in college. I was drawn to…