in March. “[Young voters] get that the political system really is rigged, and to some degree it’s fixed by people who have this extraordinary concentration of wealth or power or influence, and opening it up to everybody is a real change in our democracy for the positive.” Northeastern University announced the dismissal of 11 first-year students who were allegedly found violating social distancing guidelines amid thecoronaviruspandemic,The Boston Globereports.According to a memo postedon the school’s website I think it really was a huge thing and in so many different ways. I think Providence Rhode Island, in the '70s and '80s when I was growing up there, was a pretty interesting place. It was a place where I, at least in the neighborhood that I lived in, encountered so many people from really different backgrounds than my own. In terms of people who had immigrated recently from other countries, people who had racial and ethnic backgrounds different than mine, people who had different spiritual beliefs and religions, and also people who occupied really different economic brackets than my parents. I also grew up in a neighborhood where there were a lot of educators of different types, so I think that was a really influential thing. My mom’s of Italian and German heritage but she was raised in the Middle East and my dad’s a professor so I think that combination of having a family that really valued a connection between different cultures, and then being in an environment where I experienced that in a really natural way was a really big part of how I started to think about the world and start to look at what felt important to me about the world and then, of course, that filtered into my life as a creative person. I also think that Providence was an interesting place too. It had an arts school and a number of colleges and then also a really vibrant creative life. It was a city, which especially when I was a kid, was totally broke, was run by the mob, and there wasn’t a lot to do and I think most people across the board tended to entertain themselves by some kind of creative activity… I feel like I grew up in a very creative environment. So much of what has been important to me about being an artist got forged in that crucible of directly where I grew up as a kid.”TV That being said, her Make-A-Wish was to meet Justin. Cancellation aside, having heard her story along with his commitment to the foundation, he granted her wish and met with Sarina for 30 whole minutes! "I cried on his shoulder!" Sarina said, "and he rocked me back and forth, and he was like, 'Aww, don't cry!' because I was, like, bawling, and it was really amazing." Watch a full recap of her incredible experience below.ContentView Iframe URLRelated: