Stories

Our Black community is in danger. This isn’t breaking news, but it should be breaking hearts.

Our goal is to hear voices we don’t always hear. Our students are so smart, and so connected, we want to hear all the solutions they have.

What I’ve tried to do in the program is to help students self-advocate and to help them understand how academic settings work.

We want to empower students to be the authors of their own stories. It’s really about rethinking what this center can do to amplify voices that are most silenced in this society.

I jumped at the opportunity to welcome students from Fitchburg State to my department. I’m glad these young adults could put themselves in a police cruiser and see if this is something they want to do full-time.

The fire service turned out to be a very rewarding career for me.

I had to think about how to reach my students online, and that’s when I started with the idea of a book. I draw a lot of coloring pages that kids have at school, so I was thinking about a series of those that kids could download. And then it grew into an actual children’s book.

These courses provide a much needed opportunity to engage in dialogue, self-reflection and community building. Doing so replaces misinformation with empathy, compassion and belonging.

Fighting for equality is always at my core, along with human rights. We should all be able to start with a clean slate.

One of our first objectives is to have a better understanding of our own identities and our own biases.