Meet the Class of 2026
Norah Rami
Hometown: Sugar Land, TX
Majors: English and Political Science
Activities & Honors
- Editor in Chief – 34th Street Magazine
- Board of Directors/Executive Board – The Daily Pennsylvanian
- Fellow – Marks Family Writing Center
- Peer Mentor Group Leader – University Scholars
- Mentor – PEER
- Research Assistant – Center for Advance Study of India and the Computational Social Science Lab
- Member – Pi Sigma Alpha (National Political Science Honor Society)
- The Stallybrass Prize in the History of Material Texts
- Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting Fellow and Andrea Mitchell Fellow
- Written for The New York Times (2022), Teen Vogue Magazine (2023), Philadelphia Obituary Project (2024), The Philadelphia Citizen (2024), Dirt Media (2024, 2025)
Hobbies: Reading, writing, trying new restaurants around philly, going to concerts, making niche playlists on spotify
Favorite Books: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and Anna Karina by Leo Tolstoy
Favorite Movie: Bend it Like Beckham
Favorite Food: Pesto pasta
Favorite Quote: “How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.” ~Dorothy L. Sayers
Plans After Penn: Working in journalism for a few years and then law school!
