Elly Fishman worked as a senior editor and writer at Chicago magazine. Her features have won numerous awards including a City Regional Magazine Award for her article "Welcome to Refugee High," her first report on the students and faculty at Chicago's Roger C. Sullivan High School. A Chicago native and graduate of the University of Chicago, Fishman currently lives in Milwaukee with her husband and their dog and teaches in the Journalism Department at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
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A year in the life of a Chicago high school that has one of the highest proportions of refugees of any school in the nation For a century, Chicago’s Roger C. Sullivan High School has been a landing place for migrants. In recent years, it boasts one o... SEE MORE