Benedicte Yenyi, September, 03, 2024 My mother often recounted memories of when she was pregnant with me. She shared stories of how she fled from gunshots during the staged coup by President Mzee Laurent-Désiré Kabila to overthrow President Mobutu's 36-year…
Grace Connors July 29, 2024 It is not often that you find your personal motto while waist-deep in mud, but that is exactly where I found mine. The week prior to my freshman year at Notre Dame, I was sent…
Anna Savva May 31, 2024 I have an image in my mind of an old photograph: a blurry photo of my fourth-grade recital, where I am smiling at the camera wearing a sash with the name of my grandfather’s occupied…
Ernesto Fraga March 27, 2024 Growing up in Cuba, I looked at the United States as the “city on the hill.” I rememberhow my friends who had left Cuba for the U.S. described the country as an exemplar of peaceand…
