Going into my semester at the Washington Community Scholars Center, EMU's location in the nation's capital, I wondered if my internship was a good fit for me. I had been placed with a reentry non-profit called Voices for a Second Chance. I had a basic understanding of criminal justice issues from reading Michelle Alexander’s book The New … Continue reading Bridging the Gap Between Incarceration and Community by Gabby McMillon
An Attempt at Decolonizing the Classroom By Myriam Aziz
I came to the U.S. for the first time when I was 15 years old. I was the only Arab in my school. When people would ask me where I was from and I would say “Lebanon,”, very few knew where that was. It seemed unfair mainly because I knew so much about American culture. … Continue reading An Attempt at Decolonizing the Classroom By Myriam Aziz