Cynthia Nkeze, ELL teacher at the SWS, looks proudly at her student Abdi Hussein on receiving his high school diploma

Venice Buhain is an online and print journalist whose work has appeared on TVW News, AOL/Patch, The Olympian and other news organizations. She is also the former Editorial Director at The Seattle Globalist. Venice has covered diversity, education, local news and politics. She also is a past Seattle chapter president of the Asian American Journalists Association.