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August 13, 2025 Uncategorized

A Women’s Journey to the States

by: Alayna Bolda  Editor: Yanxi Zhou Pashka Gegaj poses in the living room of her home in March of 2022.

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October 24, 2023 Acceptance / Community stories / Intersectionality / Pandemic

Embracing Diversity: A Filmmaker’s Perspective in Higher Education

By: John Sabato Editor: Oliver Hackett and Yanxi Zhou Every morning at 8:30 a.m., Professor Yezbick teaches an introduction-level film

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October 16, 2023 Community stories / Family

The Eyes Behind a First-Generation Student 

By: Ava Pritchard Editor: Oliver Hackett and Yanxi Zhou Ava Pritchard: Where did you grow up and what factors influenced

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February 28, 2023 Ability / Acceptance / Community stories / Intersectionality

A Place Where Everyone is Celebrated

By: Amanda Forrester Editor: Katie Williams The Living and Learning Enrichment Center in Northville, Michigan, works with teens and young

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February 14, 2023 Acceptance / Community stories / Gender / Identity

Acceptance and Denial: Being Transgender in America

By: Nathan Katzenberger Editor: Katie Williams About 18 to 22 weeks into pregnancy, the medical professionals caring for a couple

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February 9, 2022 Climate change / Community stories

Destructive Climate Change in Texas

By Monique Bedford Editor: Katie Williams In this episode of her podcast, Monique Bedford sits down with Corinna Alveya to

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January 2, 2022 Ability / Acceptance / Community stories / Family

Surviving Polio Without Pity

By Allison Ludwig Editor Katie Williams Kathleen Sims is a wife, mother, grandmother and retired nurse but also a polio

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December 6, 2021 Community stories / Healing

Balancing Mental Health and College Life

By Krysta Lindaman Editor Katie Williams Madison Lindaman is an alumnus of Grand Valley State University where she got her

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November 11, 2021 Community stories / Family / Identity / Intersectionality / Race / Sexuality

I’ve Never Met a Stranger

By Emily Steslicki Editor Katie Williams Yolanda Moore is a 39-year-old woman who has experienced drastic socioeconomic changes throughout her

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Family of five, with three children teen age and younger, husband wearing military marines uniform
June 2, 2021 Community stories / Immigration / Race / Veterans

Becoming an American

By Samantha Sayles Samantha shares her mother’s story immigrating as a young mom from the Philippines after marrying a U.S.

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