Los Angeles, Jan. 7 – Monday night saw the season 25 premiere of The Bachelor. This season has been highly anticipated, with the lead Matt James as the first Black Bachelor in the show’s history, and a lack of diversity is a longtime criticism of the show. The show also broke tradition by selecting James [click to continue...]
New York City, March 18 – October of 2019. Everything looks the same even after all these years, but there is something different. I look to my left and right, and I am walking beside the same faces I have known for a decade now. The faces of my two best girlfriends I once used [click to continue...]
“Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.” – Stevie Wonder Okay, so I am not a man, and this is a piece for Women’s History Month, but I love this quote because it’s a reminder that my blindness does not define me or my vision. Honestly, in [click to continue...]
Fellowship Alumna Sneha Dave Creates Network for Teens and Young Adults with Chronic Health Conditions Rockville, Maryland, Jan. 15 – Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, was just another obstacle in the road for Sneha Dave. But reaching the summit – more than 16,000 feet above the plateau – was all the more challenging [click to continue...]
It was a crisp, chilly autumn afternoon in Logan, Utah. I was wheeling myself (I’m an ambulatory wheelchair user) to my doctorate-level Social Psychology class (as an undergraduate, by the way. #humblebrag 😉), rocking out to an odd yet entertaining mixture of Linkin Park and Disney songs through my earbuds. “Hakuna matata! What a wonderful phrase! Hakuna matata! Ain’t no passing” —- [click to continue...]
