User:Mcmahon
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Ada McMahon
Ada was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is there right now, in fact, living at home and studying at Harvard University. It is sometimes weird for her, but at this point she values the benefit of the rigorous academics over the awkwardness of constantly running into her elementary school teachers. And the prestigious name and networking opportunities, she values those too.
For her senior thesis this year, Ada is interviewing white graduates of Cambridge Rindge and Latin (where she went to high school) on their racial identity and understanding of race and racism. She will then write a scathing critique of the school's superficial celebration of diversity, and other liberal hypocrisies.
Ada does not feel comfortable writing earnestly and seriously about herself, which is partially why this is in the third person. That being said, after a transformative semester in South Africa last spring, she is fairly certain she is ready to dedicate her life's work to dismantling structural oppression, inequality, and injustice. She thinks tackling whiteness is a good place to start.
She sincerely hopes no one she went to high school with reads this.
Activist Page: Bayard Rustin