Growing up, I was quite the anomaly to the white people of Kansas City’s suburbs.
Was he Chinese? Was he Mexican? I’d play along with their guessing game, answering why I had a Spanish name or why my eyes became really tiny when I smiled.

They say trauma can last a lifetime.
But for genocide survivors, it can last multiple.
According to the United Nations, genocide can be officially defined as a set of acts that are committed “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” Many of these heinous crimes are not spoken about openly today, but the trauma they create often has a generational effect on the descendants of those targeted.

America’s finest assets are its natural resources and universities. If we desire to continue the strong educational tradition as we march further into an information-based economy, where the most coveted jobs fall under the umbrella of knowledge work, then education must evolve alongside the technologies that shape the habits of our lives.

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Who are we? It’s a question we have asked ourselves over and over again, and the more we’ve asked ourselves this question, the more we have come to realize there is no simple answer.

Imagine feeling a weight on your shoulders that bears down deeper and deeper until you can’t do even the simplest tasks.
That’s what burnout feels like, and for many of us, we don’t have to imagine it.