Lass Kennah, a senior applied conflict management major, poses for a portrait on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017. Kanneh is an immigrant from Liberia where as a child he was forced into being a soldier during the Second Liberian Civil War. "I fought as a child soldier from 1999 to 2003 and I remember with in the five years it was really difficult," Kanneh said, "I saw a lot of things a normal person shouldn't see."

Macy Freeman, 5, waves to the crowd after being named 2017 Mercer County Fair Little Miss at the Mercer County Fairgrounds in Aledo, Ill. on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. (Photo by Nate Manley / The Dispatch/Argus)

Taylor Pierce

Akron Children's Hospital hero Tanner Ross poses for a portrait at his "Hero Zone" before the start of the Akron Marathon Saturday, Sept. 23, 3

Ronnie Ladines

Hana Barkowitz 

Henry Palatella

Emelia Sherin, co-author of the play "Independent: The Heroin Project," poses for a portrait Oct. 7, 2017. Sherin describes her play as her "baby."

Holly Speers poses for a portrait Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. Speers is entering her senior season as the shortstop for the Kent State softball team and is looking to bounce back after being injured most of her junior year.

Lilly Sweitzer