Shira Engel is a loud and proud Jewish feminist high school senior who takes it as a compliment when labeled outspoken, seeing as you have to really speak your mind to share that title in bustling New York City. She is of the belief system that life is lived to laugh about and words have the power to inspire laughter, provoke thought, and make people squirm with new opinions. Shira's writing is most often an indirect product of yoga, jolts of coffee, her baby sister, the
Bronfman Youth Fellowships in Israel, and conversations she "overhears" on the streets of Chelsea.