About Olivia Haynes

Age: 17
School: Guerin Catholic
Grade: 12
Hobbies: anything with friends, reading, swing dancing, photography, writing, Life Teen, Bible Study, retreats, drawing,yearbook, clubs, movies and of course Y-Press :)
Favorite Color: blue
Favorite Book(s): too many to pick just one
Favorite Movie(s): see above
Favorite Food: Italian, if I had to choose
Favorite YPress Story: interracial dating or serbian youth

Stories by Olivia

	Movie spurs Ugandan relief By Jordan Denari, 16, Olivia Haynes, 15, Shelby Helton, 15 Most people watch a movie, critique it, and then move on. For Jenna Knapp, 19, it wasn't that easy. Jenna first saw the documentary "Invisible Children" during her senior year of high school, when a college friend brought back a copy from California.
	Inclusive classrooms By Olivia Haynes, 16, Shelby Helton, 16, Jessika Officer, 15 Emerson Barnett believes that he is successful today, in part, because of mainstreaming. Being included in typical classrooms allowed him and his classmates to face his cerebral palsy head-on.
	Many date outside their race By Joi Officer, 14, Warren Stokes, 17, Olivia Haynes, 17 Several Indianapolis teens – be they Indian, black, Latino or white – said they would consider marrying outside of their race, now that they have been part of the interracial dating scene. Raymond Jami, who is black, and Rocio Mendez, who is Latina, have been dating for more than three years.
	What a Texas sociologist found By Joi Officer, 14, Warren Stokes, 17, Olivia Haynes, 17 George Yancey, an associate professor of sociology at the University of North Texas, studies interracial dating and marriage. He shared some of his findings with Y-Press.