Maya Montell is a ninth grader at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, New Jersey. Maya along with her classmates Caroline Waters and Allison Vandal won the 2016 IWitness Video Challenge for their video project “Community of Poetry.”

First they came for


First they came for the Muslims, and we said, “not this time.”

In their third day of protest in certain cities, demonstrators gathered in unity against President Donald Trump’s recent executive order restricting immigration and travel from seven Muslim-majority countries – Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen – for 90 days.

Rennie Svirnovskiy