On January 27th, 2017, an executive order was signed barring all entry for the next 90 days by travelers from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Libya. Excluded from the list are several majority-Muslim nations including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Why does this matter? In the 16 years since September 11th, 2001, there have been forty-two attacks that have been categorized as "terrorist attacks" in

Why I will March in Washington, DC on January 21st, 2017: In this time, I am reminded of Lincoln's closing remarks in the Gettysburg address: "It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devoti