From the students developing a pen for those with Parkinson’s to Billboard-acclaimed recording artists, here are the young people revolutionizing art, tech and business in Chicago.
Medill junior Izzy Mokotoff’s grandfather was a veterinarian by trade. But, she says, he was a writer at heart. She and her cousins received weekly handwritten letters from him growing up. When Mokotoff got into journalism school, she says her grandfather sent her old notes from his own college journalism assignments. It’s through writing, Mokotoff.