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Arika Linton, Contributing Writer

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By day, Arika works as a nonprofit senior manager in Chicago. The former educator and forever mentor loves sharing her platform with millennials of color. By night, when she's not spending time with her brave and brilliant three-year-old, she enjoys writing about a variety of black culture topics. Her pieces have been featured in Blavity, 21Ninety, Medium.com, Walker's Legacy and The Chicago Defender.

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