Meet the 21-year-old college student reporting on the war in Ukraine
‘I did have a way to leave here. I began packing, because I knew that I would have to head to a bomb shelter. But I didn’t want to leave,’ Asami Terajima says.
Eight days ago, Asami Terajima, a college student living in Ukraine, was balancing classes—conducted over Zoom at William Woods University, the American school she attends remotely—with a job at The Kyiv Independent, an English-language media outlet. When Russia invaded Ukraine, she had the opportunity to leave the country. But the 21-year-old decided to stay. Now she spends essentially every waking moment covering the war.