Apr 7, 2021 | Scholar Stories
On election night, Anjelica Valenzuela (Cohort 16) stayed up late to put the finishing touches on her application to join the Seattle Youth Council. In some ways, this was part of an evolution that began in 2016, when ten-year-old Anjelica prepared herself for the...
Mar 30, 2021 | Career Development, Scholar Stories
by Alison Krupnick Though she became famous as a novelist, Alice Walker was also a poet, with a book entitled Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. Sara Sarmiento-Ruiz first encountered Walker’s poetry in high school. She says Walker was the first poet...