Sonaiya Kelley is a 21-year-old writer living in New York. A graduate of the esteemed Bronx High School of Science, she transferred to Stony Brook University in the fall of 2012 after spending two years at Goucher College, a small liberal arts college in Baltimore. Currently approaching her last semester of college, she is a Dow Jones News Fund Intern/Contributing Writer at Patch.com.
In no particular order, Sonaiya’s great loves are: Drake, Scandal, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, True Blood, rice pudding and Ray Bradbury. Skirting the border of Leo and Virgo, she is truly a mixed cusp-er and lives a life filled with chaos and uncertainty accordingly.
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