By Jake Toole/El Inde The University of Arizona Community Garden was an array of green last October. Corn was the most identifiable crop, towering over the rest of the green vegetables. Barbara Eiswerth, the director of Iskashitaa, a nonprofit that works to alleviate food insecurity in refugee and non-refugee communities in Tucson by harvesting unused…
By Kristopher Yanez/ El Inde Amid a dark waning twilight abyss, the bright orange-accented adobe brick walls of the Quality Hotel Americana quickly receded behind Niko Garms and Daniel Valenzuela as they waded past the sleepy storefronts alongside Grand Avenue in Nogales, Arizona, on the early morning of September 16. Aside from the rustlings of…
By Jesse Tellez/El Inde The smell of Lysol disinfectant hit Emily Gates as she walked through the back door of Invisible Theatre. Had she been wearing a blindfold in addition to her face mask, she might have thought it was a doctor’s office. Gates found one of the red velvet seats in the audience not…
By Jillian Bartsch/El Inde Saikat Guha sits at his desk with a pencil and sheets of paper. He looks down and begins to scribble math equations. In between working on his math problems, he can be found sitting in front of his computer in meetings with his students. A smile appears on his face as…
By Jamie Donnelly/El Inde When your heart starts racing and your head is filled with a million thoughts, you are told to close your eyes and picture your happy place. But escaping to your happy place has become so much harder due to the pandemic and travel restrictions. With feelings of uncertainty and stress, what…
