Sonia Chajet Wides is from Brooklyn, New York, and is currently a student at Amherst College. She is a Managing News Editor at The Amherst Student. Sonia was previously the founder and co-director of the online youth activist resource center Teens Resist, and was a staff writer at her high school’s newspaper. Her work has also appeared in Teen Vogue. In her free time, she loves creative writing, baking, and hiking. Sonia’s summer internship at The Current is made possible by the Charles Hamilton Houston Internship Program at Amherst College.
