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Setting Expectations: Six Benefits of Inviting College Students to Co-design the Class Environment
Staring out into stunned silence I give my students a beat to process the question they’ve been asked. I know many of them have never been asked what they expect of their educator.
“Um, review packets?”
Four Lessons on How a Black Girl in Liberal Arts Broke into the Tech Field
June 1, 2022 | Brittany Allen, MIDA (she/her/hers) | Technical Sourcer
About ten years ago I was knee deep in a doctoral program studying political science, already having completed a master’s degree. I distinctly remember coming home to my apartment one day after spending hours in the library and thinking, “Why am I doing this?”
Becoming a Better Parent: Supporting my Child’s Journey with Mental Health
May 17, 2022 | Indra Paola Peláez, Ed.D. (she/her/hers) | Dean of College and Career Pathways at Renton Technical College
Saturday, August 29th, 2020, started as an ordinary. I left early and came home exhausted. Shortly after laying down to recharge, my son said something that instantly changed my world: “Mom, I have been cutting myself…
The Flow Zone: My Art and Healing
May 1, 2022 | Jimmy Johnson (they/them) | Artist
I always had a creative intuition. As a kid I remember using crafts, doodles, and other various mediums as a form of self-expression. I never considered myself an “artist” per say, but it was abundantly clear that…
Gen Z
April 1, 2022 | Faith Ninivaggi, MFA (she/her/hers) | Photojournalist
Gen Z is a teen-portrait project by Faith Ninivaggi. Days before the global Covid-19 pandemic boomed Faith began this project in March of 2020 as a means to understand a generation characterized by its social media use. Her project, already curious to the isolating factors of social media, immediately took on a new lens: global lockdown.
Faith’s work is an original project informed by her duality as a mother and photojournalist and explores a generation now defined by physical confinement. Artist and subject work together to navigate their new realities. While Faith overcame artistic challenges presented by the pandemic, her subjects embraced their agency in their collaboration with her, of which they had been stripped during the pandemic.
Faith’s project earned her an MFA in Photography and Integrated Media from Lesley University. We invite you to explore her project, accompanied by a collaborative poem.
Querer es Poder (Where There Is a Will, There Is a Way)
March 1, 2022 | Juana Estrada Hernández, MFA (she/her/hers) | Assistant Professor of Printmaking
Querer es Poder (Where there is a will, there is a way) narrates the migration story of Juana Estrada Hernández’ family, who left Mexico to make the United States home. Through a series of prints, Estrada Hernández explores this process of migration with images that act as remnants of memories of this experience.
Querer es Poder narra la historia migratoria de la familia de Juana Estrada Hernández, dejaron su país de México para convertir a los Estados Unidos en su nuevo hogar. A través de una serie de impresiones, Estrada Hernández explora el proceso de migración con imágenes que actúan como los restos de memorias de sus experiencias.
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