Chaya Tong is from the Bay Area, California and is now an undergraduate at Emory University, majoring in English and biology. She is a writer and editor at The Emory Wheel and a student researcher with The Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project, investigating racially motivated murders in Georgia during the modern civil rights era.
It takes around four hours by car to go from Savannah to Atlanta — not an easy trip to make in time for a 9 a.m. weekday meeting of the state Board of Natural Resources.
Senate Bill 51, which would end the sales tax on menstrual products in the state, did not advance out of the committee this year, though it is still alive for 2024 when the Legislature reconvenes next January.
