17 PICS!

Thank you to everyone who has already PICd my assignment. I really appreciate it! I am now ranked 138. I need to be in the top 20 to get my assignment before the judges so please keep up the good work! Share my link and story with as many people as you know! Thanks again!

Mixed Blessings: The Story of a Biracial America

Once in a life time, something comes across your path that is so perfect it is hard to believe it is real. This contest is one of those things. Imagine, $50,000 to travel across the country documenting in photographs and words, your dream assignment.

It didn’t take me very long to decide upon my dream. I am biracial, and identifying as such has shaped everything about me. I spent my senior year in the USC sociology department studying biracial and multiracial identity. Since then it has been a dream of mine to document and photograph other biracial and multiracial individuals around the country.

With the election of Barack Obama as President I feel that now is the perfect time to discover what the new faces of America have to say, and how we can learn that we are not all so very different after all.

I hope that you will help me in achieving my dream. Please “Pic” my assignment, and please, if you feel that this is a valuable endeavor, share this with your friends and family. http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/lawahine/mixed-blessings-the-story-of-a-biracial-america/

Thank you.