Since coming to Emory, this WAWA service event was the first off campus volunteering I did since high school. This was significant because after coming to this, I realized just how little I was involved with my community outside of Emory. When Professor Chapman initiated making a circle to introduce oneself, there I learned that…

This was a semester of two “firsts” for me. I decided to take a philosophy class and an ecology class for the first time in my college career. I came in with an open mind about both and was pleasantly surprised by both of them and the overlaps they created. Being in this Black Ecology…