Shivani Kumar, Author at The Emory Wheel

Shivani Kumar

Shivani Kumar (23C) is from Tallahassee, Florida, and she majors in business and political science. In addition to writing for the Emory Wheel, Shivani presides over 4 Justice, Emory’s justice reform organization, serves as an executive board member for Donate Life at Emory, is a second-degree black belt in taekwondo and conducts research for publication in political science. In her free time, she enjoys painting, learning new languages, spending time with her wonderful friends and family and attempting to rap like Eminem. Feel free to contact Shivani at [email protected]

Incarcerated Americans Don’t Have a Voice. Let’s Change That.

Posted by Shivani Kumar | Aug 26, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic has raged across the world, issues deep within the U.S. criminal legal system have come to the fore and stayed there. The senseless murders of Black people, including Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others, have elucidated the heartbreaking levels of racial oppression and violence in the United States. Today’s [...]

African Americans Shouldn’t Need Viral Videos of Their Deaths to Receive Due Process

Posted by Shivani Kumar | May 22, 2020

Our criminal justice system has reached a horrifying new peak of racism. We have required the public to witness the brutal shooting and lynching of a black man for his death to receive recognition. America has indoctrinated the need to capture black people being killed on film — from hangings in the nineteenth century to [...]