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Itzel Rios: Undocumented High School Senior Reflects On Election

Itzel Rios
(Photo courtesy of SPOT 127)
Itzel Rios Soto.

We’ve spent a lot of time this election season talking about what sways voters, how the candidates interact with each other and what the polls say. But the outcome of elections affects everyone, even those who can’t vote, like Itzel Rios.

Rios is a senior at Bioscience High School in Phoenix and plans to apply to New York University or the University of Southern California to study film. She’s also undocumented.

Rios wrote this reflection on what the complex election season means to her, at KJZZ’s Youth Media Center Spot 127.