Max Tendler
Youth Reporting InstituteMax Tendler is from Durham, North Carolina, and will be attending Duke University as a Freshman majoring in English this upcoming Fall. She loves public speaking, reading fantasy novels, playing Dungeons and Dragons, and building community in any way she can. Max was previously Editor-in-Chief of her high school newspaper, and she applied for the Youth Reporting Institute to improve her story-crafting skills and serve her community with the most effective and compelling journalism possible.
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Every 15 days, someone is killed on Durham’s roads. Max Tendler talked to pedestrians at busy Durham intersections to see how they felt walking around the city without a car. Then, she spoke with the people designing plans to make Durham safer.