Thursday, March 20th, 2025
Reflections from Baltimore: “A Journey Toward Belonging” and “Optimism as Resistance”
The following are two reflections from the engaged spring break experience of the half-credit CEL course “Food, Faith, and Justice”. The course explores the following questions: why are people food insecure in Baltimore in 2025? How is the community responding (through direct service, grassroots organizing, policy, research, and advocacy)? How do we fit in? And how do we build hopeful, resilient. thoughtful communities of response? To read reflections from more students, please click here. A Journey Toward Belonging Shaheryar Asghar ’28, participant Yesterday felt different; it was a day where coming to Baltimore no longer felt like an adjustment — it […]