Advocacy can be tricky; sometimes we just have to dive in, take chances and learn from our mistakes. Diving in, I decided to target a population that is very near and dear to my heart: student parents at WSU. The Student Parent Program offers pregnant and parenting...
To whomever may be reading this, I challenge you to take a moment and imagine yourself without a home, bed, job, family, healthcare, place to shower or groceries in a nice, cold refrigerator. This might be hard for you to wrap your head around, but hundreds of...
I was lucky enough to be one of the film studies students who curated Our Digital Humanity: The Film Series, a series that supports Winona State University’s theme, “Our Digital Humanity.” The event was spread out into five days that included five feature films and a...
I currently work at the Mayo Clinic in the cancer unit. Every year, Mayo does a clinic-wide giving campaign with the United Way, and I helped collect contributions and sort them out into piles that would then be distributed to families in need. We spent two long...
There is a lot of mystery that surrounds mental illness. A group of four graduate students set out to tackle the stigma of mental illness in Winona County. While looking at resources available, we came across the National Alliance of Mental Health (NAMI) and Winona...
