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The Aztec

The Student News Site of Mark Keppel High School

The Aztec

Maryam Barro Tall

Maryam Barro Tall, President/Editor-In-Chief / Opinion Editor

Maryam is a 17 year old senior in her second and last year on the newspaper as the President, Opinion Editor & Editor in Chief. Maryam is the youngest of 3 girls, the oldest entering her senior year of college, and the second one entering college this year. Maryam is the daughter of immigrants, with her parents moving from their home country of Senegal in West Africa to the United States in 2001, a year before the birth of their first daughter. Maryam was born and raised as a Muslim, and this is the thing in her life she is most proud of being. Maryam’s favorite subject is by far English, and she loves writing, reading, and everything contributing to the subject. Maryam is also a poet, having competed on the MKHS SNAP (Speak Now All Poets) slam poetry team this previous school year for the first time where the team not only made it to the finals of the Classic Slam where they completed against hundreds of young poets from all over California, but they won, being one of the few teams in the competition’s history to win back to back. Maryam has always loved writing stories, poems, songs, articles, and so much more and hopes to become an author one day. Maryam’s favorite books have to include The Hunger Games series, the A Series Of Unfortunate Events series, the A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder series, The Fault In Our Stars, and so much more.

All content by Maryam Barro Tall
Black History Month poster

Black History Month: The Arts

Maryam Barro Tall, President/Opinion Editor/Editor-In-Chief February 29, 2024
Poetry Out Loud Judges

[Photo] Poetry Out Loud

Brian Blackwater, Staff Writer December 4, 2023
Books on the Banned Book List

Banned Books Week

Maryam Barro Tall, Opinion Editor/Editor-In-Chief October 31, 2023
Dia De Los Muertos

Dia De Los Muertos

Maryam Barro Tall, President/Opinion Editor/Editor-In-Chief November 26, 2023
Halloween Parade-The Language Department as Barbie

Halloween Parade 2023

Maryam Barro Tall, Opinion Editor/Editor-In-Chief November 2, 2023

The Youth Mental Health Crisis

Maryam Barro Tall, Opinion Editor/Editor-In-Chief October 8, 2023
Group photo of the educators on a boat to Tiberius

Foreign Perspectives: Educators’ Trip to Israel

Maryam Barro Tall, Opinion Editor/Editor-In-Chief September 4, 2023

The History Of Black History

Maryam Barro Tall, Staff Writer February 28, 2023
"This School Welcomes you" poster plastered throughout MKHS

What are Safe Spaces?

Maryam Barro Tall, Staff Writer February 21, 2023
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