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  • Carter Welch '23 RGLP Reflection

    March 9, 2021

    For the first seventeen years of my life, I lived in a small town in west Michigan—a beautiful place, sure—but a homogenous one. I rarely left the state and if I did it was predominantly for vacation travel, not necessarily an outlet for major cultural learning experiences and integration. Resultantly, my culture was long-informed by rural, midwestern values: always be polite, speak only when spoken to, and regardless of how you feel, it’s probably best to keep it to yourself or only alert those closest to you.

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  • Ben Brody '22 RGLP Reflection: An ode to cultural growth

    March 9, 2021

    If you had asked me to talk about my culture before I began RGLP, I would have given you a definition narrow enough to be succinct. I would have told you about growing up in New England. I might have talked about my Dad’s Jewish family. That would be it. That is how I would have defined my culture. I perceived it without nuance and without any aspects that I would consider “interesting.”

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  • RLF Reflection: Community-based Leadership

    March 8, 2021

    On March 5, 2021, Janae Harris gave a presentation on community and intentional leadership. Janae defines community-based leadership as, “emergent leadership where community members become concerned about a topic and develop leadership to make change.” She believes that it is important to identify the five major components of community-based leadership in order to understand the way that community-based leadership can be applied. These components include initiation and spread of interest, organization sponsorship, setting goals, recruitment and plan implementation.

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  • The Public Option Beyond Healthcare

    March 4, 2021

    On Wednesday, February 25th, 2021 the Rockefeller Center had the pleasure of having Anne Alstott, who focused on the potential that the public option has for transforming American civic life, and offered solutions to a variety of problems, from housing shortages to inadequate childcare.

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