An assault on a Black Cornellian in Collegetown at the beginning of her first year at Cornell spurred Amber Haywood ’21 to work for change for the next four years, explains an article by KeShonna Jackson ’24 on the Cornell Research website. Haywood got involved in community-engaged learning through clubs such as #DoBetterCornell, Black Students United, and Building Ourselves through Sisterhood and Service, and through her campus job at the Office of Engagement Initiatives (OEI).
“Social justice orientation was very formative to my Cornell experience,” she says in the piece.
Joseph Lubeck '78, right, meets with students and Professor Ross Brann during a recent campus visit, where they spoke about Lubeck's grandfather, Morris Escoll '1916, and an essay he wrote about life as a Jewish student at Cornell.
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Photo illustration by Ashley Osburn/Cornell University
A student chronicled her life in the ’50s and ’60s—then shared those memories with her daughter and granddaughter