Ningli Loken

  Womxn of color want to engage in research, but workplace racism and sexism routinely push them out. These strands of discrimination intersect and force womxn of color to uniquely deal with both. Academic institutions characterize womxn of color as less intelligent and competent than their white male counterparts. But Black, Indigenous and womxn of...

  We want people to take accountability for their mistakes. This requires recognition of the harm they enact and a commitment to improving. We should be asking the same thing of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Come as you are, but don’t stay as you are. Accounts about the “Indian Wars” in...

  As a non-Indigenous Asian person in America, I am a settler. “Settler” refers to all who aren’t the First People of a given place-territory. We dwell on the disruption of Indigenous ways of life and Native American land stewardship. Dear Settler, let me help you become unsettled. To gain accountability toward Indigenous Americans, settlers...

  The First Generation Scholars program held a summer social, but curiously missing from the event was the presence of white students. I entered the space to find out why. In the process, I learned about the resources they offer to first-generation students to help lift them up and fill their academic experiences with hope....