I remember waking up on the morning of Sunday, June 12th around 6:00am with my two friends before we set out on a hike. I rolled over, picked up my phone, and saw the CNN notificat[...]
When I was originally writing for this blog series, I was organizing my thoughts on the tragedy in Orlando. Since that unfortunate situation, there have been more than three horrib[...]
Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. Saturday. Sunday. Repeat. It seems like every single day, I wake up to another senseless act of violence. Police brutality, shootings [...]
As student affairs professionals, we need to understand and prepare for the short-term and longer-term impact of tragedies like the Orlando massacre. This “human engineered” mass s[...]
“What? Again? Wait, no; how? Why? For what? How could…? But, now in 2016? Who did it?” These were only a few of the many questions and thoughts that raced through my head as I awok[...]
When I was first asked to write for #SAProsContribute, it was primarily from the view point of the Orlando tragedy. How should we respond to instances of tragedy as a field? I had [...]
It is 2016 and I still cannot believe that I live in a country where racism, prejudice, and homophobia plague this place that I call home. It is apparent when I watch the news and[...]
I woke up as usual on Sunday morning, June 12th to my 2-year-old daughter crawling into bed around 5:45am. After a few restless minutes, we made our way downstairs where we were j[...]
‘You don’t count.’ As a young student affairs professional in my second year in the field,those words stung me. It was the morning of September 11, 2001 and tragedy had just struc[...]
There has been on a lot of dialogue around the Orlando tragedy via social media, on our campuses and with our family and friends. I had mentioned to dear friends and colleagues tha[...]