Gulnaz Saiyed is a creative nonfiction writer whose work has been published in Brain Mill Press’s Voices. Saiyed is also a doctoral student in Learning Sciences at Northwestern University, where she studies the design of curricula that support youth from non-dominant communities by helping them to freely articulate their perspectives on civic issues. Both her writing and research are concerned with signification and representation—who gets to tell stories and who has stories told about them.