Hawa Kamara is a Bronx native. She participated in Columbia University’s Freedom & Citizenship Program in 2023 and graduated from the Frederick Douglass Academy in 2024. Her favorite reading in F&C was “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass. Hawa now attends Barnard College of Columbia University where she plans to study Sociology and Human Rights. In her free time, she enjoys walking and playing Wordle or Connections.