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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 […]

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Posted by on March 20, 2025

Sunday, April 28th, 2024

Why? A Reflection on Inside-Out

Written by Amira Faden This past semester, I have had the honor of taking a poetry class through the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. The course took place in a local prison: 8 of the students came from Bucknell (“outside students”) and 8 of the students were incarcerated in the local prison (“inside students”). We met one afternoon each week within the prison for a series of discussions, writing exercises and sharing sessions on the subject of reading and writing poetry. Together, we established a foundation of trust and connection that allowed us to learn from each other. Two conversations come […]

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Posted by on April 28, 2024

Sunday, March 24th, 2024

Reflections from Baltimore: “Finding Solutions in Strength” and “Years and Small Steps”

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 2024? 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. Finding Solutions in Strength Katie Schadler ’26, participant The Food, Faith, and Justice 2024 cohort spent our first full day in Baltimore meeting the Black Church Food […]

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Posted by on March 24, 2024

Saturday, March 25th, 2023

A Reflection from Baltimore: The Value of Community

The following is a TA reflection from the half-credit CEL course Food, Faith, and Justice.
What a week it has been! I am so glad that I have had the opportunity to come to Baltimore for Food, Faith, and Justice a second time. This week was filled with meaningful conversation, learning, connection, joy, and laughter.

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Posted by on March 25, 2023

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