After living in Jerusalem during her junior year in high school, Naomi Gertz found her heart in Palestine. A year in the city revealed to her many of the struggles and tensions between the Israeli and Palestinian people, and she has decided to take her writing to a new level in order to promote peace and help resolve conflict there, where tensions are high, and apartheid governs the Palestinians' lives.

“Hushed, they wait in silence
Waiting for the sun”