Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on September 24, 2020Transforming the ‘Black Butterfly’ Baltimore City native and Johns Hopkins University Professor Lawrence Jackson ’90 created the Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts to host sites of public engagement, through which the city’s Af…
Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on September 24, 2020September 28, 2020Making Her Own Luck: Michele Barnwell ’89 A formative early experience inspired Michele Barnwell ’89 to support others in taking charge of their personal narrativ…
Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on September 24, 2020September 30, 2020Citizen Artist: Creating Socially Engaged Theater as Civic Practice Using experimental forms and immersive experiences, Assistant Professor of Theater Katie Pearl reimagines the relationsh…
Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on September 24, 2020September 24, 2020Man in the Middle: Sid Espinosa ’94 Working in the White House and with Attorney General Janet Reno. Directing global philanthropy for Fortune 50 companies.…
Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on September 24, 2020September 24, 2020On the Front Lines: Max Rose ’08 From meritorious service in Afghanistan to public service in his native New York City, Max Rose ’08 takes an action-orie…
Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on September 24, 2020September 29, 2020Sketch Comedy Jason Adam Katzenstein ’13—whose artwork appears throughout this issue—has been publishing his insightful, offbeat carto…
Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on September 24, 2020September 24, 2020A Zoom of One’s Own Wesleyan students and faculty offer personal accounts of the pains and perseverance that characterized the academic expe…
Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on September 24, 2020September 25, 2020Supporting Student Action in Civic Life Mitchell Motlagh ’20, a recent College of Social Studies major, spent his winter break in Berlin, N.H., where he helped …
Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on September 24, 2020September 24, 2020What a Difference a Year Makes: The Most Important Problems Facing the U.S. Today In Fall 2019, students in Professor of Government Erika Franklin Fowler’s GOVT372 Political Communication in a Polarized…
Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on September 17, 2020September 24, 2020“Gandhi and Guerrilla”: Present-Day Echoes of the Mayday Protests Debates over Black Lives Matter tactics and approaches to public dissent have parallels in historic civil diso…