by melineh | Jun 9, 2021 | Good Question
By Melina Chalkia, Medill, Immigrant Connect June 2021 After her parents relocated from Mexico to Pilsen in the early 1950s, Victoria Romero found the place she calls home. She feels that the Pilsen community where she’s now lived her whole...
by sarahameadow | Jun 3, 2021 | Good Question, Problems with Papers
By Sarah Meadow, Medill, Immigrant Connect June 2021 Bengi Rwabuhemba was a quarter away from finishing her freshman year at Northwestern University. She had finals to finish before returning to her home in Eswatini, formerly known as...
by lunden | Jun 3, 2021 | Good Question
By Lunden Mason, Medill, Immigrant Connect June 2021 I return home to my college apartment in Evanston, Illinois, after visiting my family, feeling hopeful about the state of the world. I’d been fully vaccinated, as had all of my family...
by kenagy | Jun 3, 2021 | Good Question
By Isabelle Kenagy, Medill, Immigrant Connect June 2021 Evelyn Venegas recalls sitting in her Chicago Public School college counselor’s office contemplating her future and knowing college was a priority. “My counselor looked at me and said,...
by jane | Jun 3, 2021 | Good Question
By Jane Greeley, Medill, Immigrant Connect June 2021 As Lunar New Year 2020 approached, Christine Chen felt optimistic about the census. As the Executive Director of APIAVote, she had been part of a strategic planning process that involved...
by amirah | Jun 3, 2021 | Good Question, Identity
By Amirah Ford, Medill, Immigrant Connect June 2021 Memorial Day weekend 2021 marks 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre — when white mobs robbed, beat and murdered Black people in Tulsa, Okla. in 1921. The horror left...
