Cami will share her reflections on her five months in Cape Town this past spring, and offer tales of one college student’s adventures wandering, exploring, and discovering. Woven through memories of bungee jumping, teaching preschool, meeting…
How does one make the decision to leave one’s home country for almost a decade and set up home in a new land? What type of experiences are gained as a minority twice-over? After spending…
As my airplane sliced the sky over the Atlantic Ocean heading from Burkina Faso to the US of A, I asked myself two questions: How has West Africa changed me? And, how will medical school change me? Looking…
In our modern American culture, is it possible to make counter-cultural choices in your career and lifestyle – working less hours, living more simply, etc. – without going so far as living on a commune? How…
Patrick Cousins has been invested in the life of the Navajo Nation for nearly twenty years, including two years teaching in a Navajo high school and leading roughly twenty immersion groups to the reservation. Patrick…
I know you all have had that moment where you wake up in the middle of the night and think, “I wonder what occupational therapy and universal design and health literacy and healthcare reform all…
Graduate school, especially in the humanities, doesn’t merely demand most of our time and energy – it’s a holistic process of transformation. It demands personality changes and a revised attitude toward the world. For this…
Sister Jean Abbott will share with us about her most recent trip to Uganda to work with people who were traumatized during the country’s civil war. She’ll give us historical background and perspectives on the…
The United States leads the world in percentage of its population that it incarcerates, every 1 in 100 people is currently either incarcerated or on probation or parole, and the rates of incarceration have increased…
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien Ching-Ting “CT” Hwang graduated in 2012 from the University of Notre Dame. She spent a gap year in Boston coaching rowing and is now a PhD student…