I grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and joined my middle school paper staff when I was 12. (I wrote one-paragraph movie reviews and helped create the crossword puzzle.) Ten years later, I graduated summa cum laude from Hampton University, a small, private school in southeastern Virginia, with seven newspaper internships and numerous other media experiences.
I am a journalist, and I am also a mediocre poet, a game show fanatic, a pescetarian, an Arab, a Pisces and an INFP.
Things I like:
- road trips
- caramel
- silence
- falafel
- cats
- poetry
- taking pictures of people who don't like to be photographed
- coffee
- dark chocolate
- handwritten notes
- find-the-differences puzzles
- the smell of gasoline
- clutter
- rearranging furniture
Things I don't like:
- strawberries
- preachy vegetarians
- cold weather
- the words "traffic" and "roadkill"
- scary movies
- malls
Random facts:
- I have visited 35 states.
- Arabic was my first language. French was my third. I'm relearning both.
- I could stay up all night with a box of crayons and a coloring book.
- I have five brothers and sisters.
- My name means "dignity" in Arabic.
- I'm a Big Sister in Big Brothers Big Sisters.
- My favorite flavor of ice cream is banana.