Washington Post: “The rise of Alicia Menendez, a voice for the millennials”
By Manuel Roig-Franzia, Published: November 5
Miami — Her apartment in the oh-so-happening, urban-revivified Brickell neighborhood came fully furnished. Sofa shopping isn’t something Alicia Menendez sees herself doing. Not now.
“I’m renting something pre-furnished. I share a car with my boyfriend. And, oh! I don’t have a master’s degree,” Menendez, who is 30, says over lunch one afternoon.
She is sorting through what this means, what it says about her and, pressingly, what it might reveal about her fellow millennials. This is what Menendez does: She sorts. She turns things over and over and over in her mind, which happens to be one supple and active place, a place of ceaseless and eclectic curiosity, of questions as much as answers.
“I want to know, then, how I know that I’m an adult,” she goes on. “There are a bunch of us who feel like losers. I know I’m not alone in that.”
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