Shayna Israel ’08
“For me, its utterance means liberation. I am thankful to have worked on revitalizing the BMC Women’s Center because it has helped me find amazing women who are not afraid to shout the ‘F-word’ —...
View ArticleTiffany Shumate ’08
“It started at a summer institute sponsored by the Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship. One of the professors talked about education as a form of social justice. That really resonated with me. I...
View ArticleEllen Stroud
“Most writers who treat environmental issues tend to focus on either cities or wilderness, but not both. But we need to be thinking about how cities can function well in relation to nature. The...
View ArticleNicole Gervasio ’09
“I grew up in a family that valued traditional labor—not ‘scholarship,’ ‘writing,’ and ‘academia.’ There was nothing theoretical about their definition of ‘work.’ Although I have grappled with the...
View ArticleSherry Ortner ’62
“Growing up in a middle-class neighborhood in New Jersey, I hadn’t realized how cloistered it really was. For a young woman in the late 1950s, the expectation was that you would get married and have a...
View ArticleAkua Nyame-Mensah ’10
“As a major in the interdisciplinary Growth and Structure of Cities Program, I have been able to explore potential career paths both inside and outside of the classroom. Through the Praxis program, and...
View ArticleMary Johnson Osirim
“We are an increasingly interdependent world; even the United States as a world leader can’t operate in isolation. It is critically important to develop students’ understanding of the social structures...
View ArticleIsel Kanelly Otero-Vera ’12
“I feel more a part of a global community now. However, because diversity is celebrated at Bryn Mawr, I am able to value and stay attached to my cultural roots even as I expand my idea of community...
View ArticleNtshadi Mofokeng ’12
Coming into Bryn Mawr, I was certain I would be a political science major. With that in mind, I dabbled around in my first year, sampling my other interests in areas such as French language and...
View ArticleAntonia Kerle ’11
“A Bryn Mawr education encourages us to think critically about ourselves and our own cultures in relationship to the world. That prepares us to view people from different cultures not as ‘the other,’...
View ArticleTsega Mekonnen Meshesha ’13
“Since Bryn Mawr is a small college, students get to know more about one another than just our names. We have dinner together and talk about politics, fashion, our different cultures and customs —...
View ArticleApocalipsis Rosario ’11
“I attended a high school made up of students who, for the most part, identified themselves as Black or Latino. Throughout those four years, I was surrounded by people whom I resembled, and because we...
View ArticlePriya Gupta ’13
“Upon arriving to campus, I participated in the Tri-Co program that introduces students from various cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds to many challenging issues and conflicts that they may face...
View ArticleClarence Jasper MSS ’13
When Clarence Jasper, MSS ’13, received Pennsylvania’s Child Welfare Education for Leadership (CWEL) grant, he knew a graduate degree at Bryn Mawr was within his grasp. Jasper worked for Philadelphia’s...
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