She has already made progress toward that goal, serving as the opinion editor for the Yale Daily News, and getting her work published in Teen Vogue and the literary journal Menacing Hedge. Onguru, who recently returned to campus after helping organize Yale Glee Club’s spring tour in Kenya, hopes to become a journalist after graduation. Onguru - who also has a strong interest in creative writing and poetry - went to the United States, attending the Interlochen Center for the Arts’ creative writing camp, in Michigan, and the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio. As a high school student on scholarship at the International School of Kenya, she was not only being taught Bach concertos, she also became part of Nairobi’s music scene, playing first violin in a number of local orchestras.ĭuring her high school summer breaks, Ms. By 12, she was playing violin in the string quartet at her primary school, where every student was required to play an instrument. Onguru, now a 20-year-old junior majoring in English and French, started taking music lessons at the age of four. Growing up in a lower-middle-class family in Nairobi, Kenya, Ms. This article is part of our special report on the Art for Tomorrow conference that was held in Florence, Italy.Īwuor Onguru says that if it were not for her continued exposure to arts education as a child, she never would have gotten into Yale University.
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