Transforming 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…
Long Form
Making Her Own Luck: Michele Barnwell ’89
A formative early experience inspired Michele Barnwell ’89 to support others in taking charge of their personal narrativ…
Citizen Artist: Creating Socially Engaged Theater as Civic Practice
Using experimental forms and immersive experiences, Assistant Professor of Theater Katie Pearl reimagines the relationsh…
Man in the Middle: Sid Espinosa ’94
Working in the White House and with Attorney General Janet Reno. Directing global philanthropy for Fortune 50 companies.…
On 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…
Sketch Comedy
Jason Adam Katzenstein ’13—whose artwork appears throughout this issue—has been publishing his insightful, offbeat carto…
A Zoom of One’s Own
Wesleyan students and faculty offer personal accounts of the pains and perseverance that characterized the academic expe…
Supporting 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 …
What 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…
“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…