Daily News | Helen Gym, the reporter and school teacher
As Helen Gym arrived at the University of Pennsylvania’s campus as a first-year student from Ohio, she was unsure of herself and where she fit in. That was, until she found her place at the school’s newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian.
“For me, it really just opened up how much Philadelphia was a place that I wanted to be a part of, that it had a fighting spirit that I wanted to see in myself,” she said.After college, she briefly returned to Ohio to work at a small newspaper, but Philly came calling her back. While she pursued her master’s degree at Penn, she took a job as a school teacher at Lowell Elementary in Olney.
Though Gym only taught at Lowell for a year, her time in Olney continued to shape the identity she was just beginning to form at The Daily Pennsylvanian. She became an activist and community organizer, regularly traveling after school to Chinatown to fight against gentrification and displacement. Years later, Gym led a campaign protesting against the construction of a baseball stadium in Chinatown. She advocated for public schools and helped Asian-American students at South Philadelphia High School win a federal civil rights case after they were bullied and harassed.
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