Jimmy Award Recipients

I’m Jason Ketchum, twenty years old and turning twenty-one in a couple weeks on May 4. I’ve been raised by my mother alone, to whom I owe everything. I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and lived there for only a couple years I don’t remember. My mother and I then moved to Los Angeles, where […]

I was born in Los Angeles in 1990. I attended the University of Chicago as a Philosophy major, then took several years off of school to work before transferring to USC in 2013 and declaring my major in English (Creative Writing). I began writing poetry after taking Introduction to Poetry with Cecelia Woloch, which was […]

[L to R: Billy Youngblood, Andrew Ramirez, Casey and Hilary Gauntt, Diana Vaden,  Julia Cooperman (seated), Professor David Roman, Aishlin Cortell and Sydni Chiles] The Jimmy 2012 Recipients Please click on the red box

I came in as a history and philosophy major my freshman year at USC and for the last four years I’ve been studying genocide and political violence.  For my history and philosophy research I’ve been travelling many times now to India and England to study cases of organized violence and particularly violence in modern India.  […]