Imagine if you were judged by the worst thing you did in your life. That was it. No other consideration of who you are. What would that be like?
It’s a question that moves Nell Ubbelohde MFA ’12 to do something many would consider radical—dangerous even.
Read more“In 1994, approximately eight hundred thousand people died in the Rwandan genocide. Neighbors killed neighbors, priests turned against their congregations, and, in some cases, people killed members of their own family. Today, fewer than twenty years later, perpetrators and survivors live and work together. How is this possible?”
Read more"Do you mind sitting by bones?"
It’s an odd question, and Hamline University Professor Susan Thurston Myster ’84 realizes it soon after the words escape her lips. “It’s so second nature to us that we don’t necessarily remember that it’s not normal!” she says.
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