Hodan Hashi was 21 years old when George Floyd was murdered on May 25, 2020.
She was about to become an activist.
“It just felt like we should say something, our voices do matter,” Hashi said on an episode of GBH News Rooted this week. “And that was, I think, the first time where I felt like, we should all be using our individual voices, no matter how young we are, no matter how much experience we have. And so we just did it.”
Looking back now, five years later, the life-long Mission Hill resident doesn’t feel like much has changed.