The public tends to blame homelessness on poverty, drug use, crime or warm weather. But other cities don't have L.A. levels of homelessness. They have more housing.
Editor’s note: This is one installment in a three-part series on this year’s candidates for ASUC president. Read about the other candidates here and here.
After watching her community face a “genocidal threat, physical and mental harassment and isolation,” ASUC presidential candidate Khwal Rafique decided she wanted to help alleviate the pain that marginalized communities feel on campus.
Rafique is a sophomore studying legal studies who currently serves as the director of the Middle Eastern, Muslim, Sikh and South Asian, or MEMSSA, student association, internal director of the Muslim Mental Health Initiative and an undergraduate representative on a chancellor’s committee.