‘No taxation without representation.’ We see this phrase in American history textbooks and plastered on license plates—and yet, this core American value doesn’t apply to nearly 1 in 10 people living in the U.S. If you include noncitizens, residents of Washington D.C., Americans living in U.S. territories and those serving time for a felony, the count totals to roughly 33 million people who are denied the right to representation despite being subject to U.S. law, paying taxes, and in some cases, even serving in the military.
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Aru Nair (she/they) is a coterminal master's student on the journalism track from Laramie, Wyoming. She spent her undergraduate degree studying Human Biology and Comparative Literature in concentrations that center on understanding humans and how we interact with both each other and the world around us. Aru is also a producer at the Stanford Storytelling Project and loves working alongside other students to create audio stories about culture and identity for the podcast State of the Human. Storytelling in all its forms (audio, video, writing) is one of their biggest passions because of its incredible power to bring people together. In her free time, Aru loves watching live music, hiking and playing board games.
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