Resisting Racism Together
A message from Kijua Sanders-McMurtry in the wake of continued global violence rooted in racism and xenophobia.
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Kijua Sanders-McMurtry
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A message from Kijua Sanders-McMurtry in the wake of continued global violence rooted in racism and xenophobia.
A call to action, inviting each of us in the MHC community to think about our role in preventing individual and collective acts of gender-based harm.
When I walked through the gates of MHC as a 17 year old, I never would have imagined that I’d be working my dream job as an Assessment officer with an Emergency Team of a humanitarian organization in Jordan just 7 years later.
The verdict in the Derek Chauvin killing of George Floyd has many of us feeling a keen awareness that there is so much more yet to be done.
Mount Holyoke College undergraduates volunteer at Homework House, tutoring elementary school students in the city of Holyoke.
“The professors want to see you succeed. So just know that wherever you want to go in life, you will always have support to help you get there.”
“My social justice passion was developed at Mount Holyoke. That’s where I realized that I want to do better for my community, using the skills I learned.”
Mount Holyoke professor’s research finds that college admissions essays are even more strongly linked to socioeconomic status than test scores.
“Having close relationships with professors is something that I didn’t know was going to happen. Just knowing an adult who knows the way around academia.”
“I don’t leave a class without having thought about something in a new way that helps me solidify and sharpen my thinking about the work that I’m doing.”