Celebration of Scholarship

Today was celebration of scholarship at Lewis University, the halls were filled with posters and classrooms were packed for presentations! The talk that I went to was entitled: "Let Your Life Speak: Connecting the Personal with Public Advocacy". Andrea Holm was the first to present and she read from part of her essay entitled "Other People". She mentioned how she never truly had to check her white privilege before until she enrolled in a sociology class. The part that she read focused on a teacher who was laid off and he struggles of facing life without a paycheck and finding a new job all while taking care of a family. She mentioned that her motivation for minoring in social work was because of this very story!