BEN AVILES

Ben Aviles is a rising senior at The Blake School in Minneapolis. There, he is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the student newspaper, The Spectrum. Over the last year, he has won awards for covering Annunciation and ICE presence in Minneapolis.
In addition to Southwest Voices/Longfellow Nokomis Messenger, his work has been published in The Star Tribune, MinnPost, The Tennessean, and a national student newspaper, Sunn Post. 
Outside of journalism, he loves to run, read, and collect vinyl records. He lives near southwest Minneapolis with his family and a little dog named Taters.