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Uma Menon is a seventeen-year-old author and student at Princeton University. She is an Encore Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project from Winter Park, Florida.

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Kid Review: Our Mothers’ Names: Love in Many Languages By Uma Menon

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By Uma Menon, Jan Farnworth
| YA Books Central Verified
About This Book: How many ways are there to say mother? A bilingual child investigates in this joyful picture-book exploration from the creators of My Mother’s Tongues. “Thank you, Amma,” says the child as her mother praises a birdhouse she’s making with her friend Angelina. With two languages spoken at home, English and Malayalam (the most common language in Kerala, India, where her parents and grandparents were born), Amma is a word the child uses for her Indian-American mom.
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Florida Law Strikes “Deathblow” to Outside Groups Trying to Register New Voters  - Bolts

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By Camille Squires Verified, Uma Menon
| Bolts
With the 2024 presidential election around the corner, third-party voter registration organizations around the country are hitting the streets; showing up at state fairs and community events, clipboards in hand, to ensure eligible voters are registered and ready for November 5. But in one swing state—Florida—these groups have had to completely rethink their voter engagement work in the face of restrictive legislation.
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Why ‘Just Voting’ Isn’t That Easy for Out-of-State College Students

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By Natasha Roy, Uma Menon
| Rewire News Group
This story is part of our monthly series, Campus Dispatch. Read the rest of the stories in the series here. Around 1 in 5 college students in the United States attend school outside their home state, a figure that has been growing over the past few decades. For four years, these students have two homes—in legal terms, dual residency—which enables them to choose whether they want to vote at their pre-college or campus addresses.
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