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
Melody M. Pannell, assistant professor of social work at Eastern Mennonite University, talks about marching with her family members from New York City, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania and Harrisonburg, Virginia — "North, South, Liberal, Conservative, White and Black all marching together." ... read more about Marching From the Margins: A perspective on the Women’s March on Washington as a radical Anabaptist womanist from Mennonite Church USA
An abundance of cultural, educational, and interactive events about American black history and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will take place in January and February at Eastern Mennonite ... read more about Campus gears up for MLK Jr. Week celebrations and Black History Month
Professor Melody M. Pannell shares experiences in researching the effects of racism and sexism, as well as historical trauma, on the mental health of young black girls in this article for the magazine of Mennonite Women USA. ... read more about Young black girls show effects of racism, sexism and historical trauma, writes social work professor Melody M. Pannell from Timbrel
Rarely does a week go by without some invitation from the Peace Fellowship to join other students, faculty and the Eastern Mennonite University campus community in a vigil or other ... read more about EMU’s long-lived Peace Fellowship advocates for the presence of justice on and off campus
The global perspective at EMU — considered an institutional leader for the faith — diffuses into the work of Harrisonburg schools. Read more in this Sojourners article by Janie Tankard Carnock, associate with New America. ... read more about Sojourners on The Multicultural Mennonites of Harrisonburg, Va. from Sojourners magazine
Austin Sachs, 19, a sophomore at Eastern Mennonite University, couldn’t sit by idly watching the protests erupting at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota against the Dakota Access ... read more about Standing with the Standing Rock cause
In a photo taken outside the Women Doing Theology Conference last month, Eastern Mennonite Seminary (EMS) Lancaster student Karyn Nancarvis flexes her muscles and grins. Nancarvis attended the conference in Leesburg, ... read more about Scholars from Harrisonburg and Lancaster campuses attend ‘Women Doing Theology’ conference
Senior social work major Elisabeth Wilder spent 12 weeks last summer working for peacebuilding organization Justapaz in Bogota, Colombia. A grant from Eastern Mennonite University’s Peacebuilding and Development Department funded ... read more about Justapaz intern shares hopes for a future Colombian peace billed as ‘impossible’
From brushing shoulders with congressmen and lobbyists to working with homeless people and at-risk youth, students spending the fall semester at the Washington Community Scholars’ Center bring home a range ... read more about From the Hill to homeless shelters, this semester’s WCSC scholars gain work experience and grow in community