At the intersection of sustainable food production and racial justice work is Leah Penniman. Penniman, a farmer, educator and and co-owner of Soul Fire Farm, will visit Eastern Mennonite University
... read more about Soul Fire Farm co-owner to talk about working to end racism and injustice through sustainable food production
“Our Royal Pride” is an occasional series celebrating Eastern Mennonite University’s undergraduate students who contribute to campus life in extraordinary ways in addition to their academic pursuits. These students enthusiastically create
... read more about Our Royal Pride: Harrison Horst – jazz band revitalizer, Earthkeepers president, Weather Vane editor … and more
Fourteen new residents to Washington D.C. moved in along with the new president of the United States in January. The students, from two universities, are in residence this semester at
... read more about From NOAA to the USDA: fourteen students make Washington D.C. their home for the spring semester
Najeeha Khan came to Friday’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute Community Day at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) to gain organizing skills and learn about facilitating dialogue. The senior international affairs and religion
... read more about Got conflict? Growing SPI Community Day reflects citizens’ need for peacebuilding skills
Participants at Eastern Mennonite University’s second annual Town Hall on Race at Eastern Mennonite University Feb. 9 asked for more awareness about the role of race in relationship-building and interactive
... read more about BSU-sponsored ‘Town Hall on Race’ convenes campus community for honest conversation
Experts broadly agree that mosquito nets are one of the best tools in the fight against malaria, to which the World Health Organization attributes hundreds of millions of illnesses each
... read more about Economic professor’s research challenges widely-held assumptions about malaria prevention
Alumna Claudette Monroy ‘10 made Washington Post front-page news on Feb. 9, sharing her story among the 11 million undocumented immigrants who are waiting and watching as President Donald Trump
... read more about Educator and DREAMer Claudette Monroy ’10 featured in Washington Post
Emily Derstine Friesen ’07, an attorney with Console Mattiacci Law LLC, and her co-counsel secured the largest verdict ever obtained by an individual plaintiff in an age discrimination suit. On
... read more about Alumna helps to win record-setting settlement in age discrimination case
Claudette Monroy '1o is featured among other immigrants living and working in Washington, D.C. under the shadow of Trump's unknown immigration policies.
... read more about WaPost article and video: DACA freedoms now uncertain for educator and graduate student Claudette Monroy ’10 from Washington Post
Attacks, arrests, threats and the murders of his friends could not deter Bob Zellner, a white Southerner, from fighting for racial equality in the civil rights movement. The lifelong activist
... read more about At Selma in ’65 and again 50 years later: Civil rights activist Bob Zellner visits EMU for two lectures and time with students