Hi, I'm Winston

I'm a High School Junior in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area. I've lived here since the second I was born, all the way up to wherever I am now. My parents immigrated to Philadelphia around the '80s and '90s and eventually had me in 2006. I lived around Northeast Philadelphia until I was in first grade, and then we moved further out of the city. Growing up, I would constantly go into the city to visit my relatives and frequently spent weekends and summers at my grandparents' former home in Northeast Philadelphia. However, growing up around the city also exposed me to many of the issues that still plague Philadelphia today--issues that I did not think twice about when I was younger. The most notable instance of this exposure was when I would often ride the El (SEPTA's Market-Frankford Subway Line) every Saturday with my grandparents to Frankford Terminal in order to visit my aunt and uncle--riding the train straight through the infamous open-air drug crisis at the entrance of Allegheny Station. It's the sheltered childhood bliss like this that really urged me to start The Chalkboard Chronicles and provide my peers and anyone else a look into the complex issues of our surrounding area from a more familiar student perspective. Hopefully, at the end of each article or video, my readers will know just a little bit more about some of the most hard-hitting controversies they may have heard about on the news, in public, or even on social media.