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the city, a nearby slum called Namuwongo, and teach life and leadership skills in the process? The director of the Global Youth Partnership stateside, Jeremy Goldberg was interested in the idea. So working with a local contact, Ocitti Joseph, Kennedy set up a tournament involving 15 teams, interspersed with leadership meetings two times a week. Kennedy knew that there was no way that he, a white man from America, could sell the idea of a tournament and leadership classes to a group of 54,000
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from reaching their potential. The second is that I want things to be fair. As a white, hetero, cis-gendered, able-bodied, upper-middle-class woman, there are many things that I unfairly benefit from. The process of learning about that privilege and what it has afforded me has been challenging and eye-opening but is also a call to action. Thankfully, my profession of public health aligns with my value of fairness and centers the importance of addressing the disparities in where people live, learn
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full-tuition scholarship annually. “What is most exciting for me is the community-building aspect of the partnership,” Jackson said. “Finding your place and feeling a sense of community on a college campus is difficult, especially for students of color attending a predominantly white institution. The fact that our Scholars will arrive on campus with a community of similarly situated student leaders is everything.” Saucedo says she found that connection with professors, students and Palmer mentors
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take pictures. Lots of them. “I just kind of documented my journey,” he said. “I photographed the first latte I made, the first pumpkin spice latte, and my favorite drink (a white chocolate mocha with four shots of espresso).” Starbucks noticed. The company actively searches for user-generated content, so when one of its baristas started posting drink after drink after drink on Instagram, people in charge could only repost his content for so long. “I was in awe,” said Maren Hamilton, a former
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your comfort zone, and to gain an empathy for the other 96 percent of humanity.”Steves, a University of Washington graduate, said that for many, college is the first opportunity to travel outside the country. He believes it’s important to a well-rounded college education and he applauds PLU’s efforts to make that possible. “It opens the door to them that wouldn’t be open otherwise,” Steves said. “It’s like all of a sudden you went from black-and-white to a color TV. Or you’ve been going to a
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woman.”” “She was an activist-author who never shied away from difficult subjects, but instead, embraced them in all their complexity. Lorde was a critic of second-wave feminism, helmed by white, middle-class women, and wrote that gender oppression was not inseparable from other oppressive systems like racism, classism and homophobia. She has made lasting contributions in the fields of feminist theory, critical race studies and queer theory through her pedagogy and writing.” – from https
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whole idea about traveling is to get out of your comfort zone, and to gain an empathy for the other 96 percent of humanity.”Steves, a University of Washington graduate, said that for many, college is the first opportunity to travel outside the country. He believes it’s important to a well-rounded college education and he applauds PLU’s efforts to make that possible. “It opens the door to them that wouldn’t be open otherwise,” Steves said. “It’s like all of a sudden you went from black-and-white to a
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), which won the 2015 Pinckley Prize for Debut Crime Fiction. Her stories have been listed as notable in Best American Short Stories and Best American Mystery Stories, and her books have been shortlisted for the Washington State Book Award, Pacific Northwest Bookseller’s Association Award, International Dublin Literary Award, Eric Hoffer Award, and Foreword Indies. Adrianne has also been the recipient of several fellowships and grants, most recently, a 2015 Civitella Ranieri Fellowship.Keetje
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Kernel in God’s Eye, explores her family’s one-hundred-year-old wheat farm in Nebraska, and the changing role of food, God, science, race and agriculture in society, and was a finalist for the Lukas Prize, awarded by Columbia and Harvard University’s Schools of Journalism. She lives in San Francisco.Suzanne BerneSuzanne Berne is the author of four novels: The Dogs of Littlefield, The Ghost at the Table, A Perfect Arrangement, and A Crime in the Neighborhood, which won Great Britain’s Orange Prize in
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the literature as the ability to “bounce back” from life’s challenges (Fletcher & Srkar, 2013; Troy et al., 2023); however these conceptualizations are developed with “normative” experiences in mind (i.e., experiences of white, cisgender, and heterosexual individuals). Existing resilience frameworks focus on one domain of identity (QT or BIPOC), do not incorporate collective healing and acts of resistance against oppression, and miss opportunities to understand how intersectional resilience may
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