Jemilah Dowuonah is a Ghanaian-American living in Romeoville, Illinois. She was a Freedom Scholar in the Civic Humanities Project at North Central College. Her favorite reading was, “What to The Slave is the Fourth of the July?” She graduated in 2024 from Romeoville High School and now attends Northwestern University where she plans to pursue a major in economics and a minor in psychology. In her free time she enjoys playing volleyball, reading, and watching movies.