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A junior at Episcopal Academy, Will Sargent is a talented artist who works in several mediums. He fabricates his own textiles and taught himself Armenian lace making, and recently won two Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for painting and mixed media. Sargent is a member of EAâs select singing group, the Vocal Ensemble, was selected for the ACDA Honors Choir and is the editor of The Epolitan, an annually published arts and music magazine. He won a French award his freshman year, and is a member of the German Club and the Queer Straight Alliance. Sargent was selected for Global Youth Leadership Institute, which continues through all four years of Upper School. An avid runner, Sargent competes on EAâs cross country and track teams. Sargentâs advisor at EA, Art Department Chair David Sigel, said, âWilliam masterfully uses art as a form of visual communication. This proficiency does not come without practice and a focused dedication to his craft and sophisticated aes ....
A few weeks before I started at middle school at Rio Norte Jr. High, I read a book called The Lightning Thief. My brother had won it from the Summer Reading Challenge at Barnes & Noble, but my mother, who was an elementary school teacher and who had heard good things about the book, encouraged me to read it, too. At first, I had refused. It seemed like a book for boys. It’s funny, in retrospect. I can’t imagine making that sort of distinction today. But I was twelve years old. I clung to the rigidity of the gender binary because I was aware, on some level, that I did not fit neatly within it, and being abnormal was something I deeply feared. ....