Open Adoption: Sophie's Story
By Sadie - It's my senior year of high school and I'm hurrying home from my lunch hour to try and get some one-on-one time with my...
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Each of us has a story, firmly planted in the ground of our personal values, which makes us who we are. When we are brave enough to share these experiences, something spectacular happens.
As we come together as students and openly express our beliefs and backgrounds, prejudice, bigotry, and ignorance dissipate. We begin to see each other and our world in a different light; together, our stories make a clearer picture of ourselves and our university.
The purpose of The Grace A. Tanner Center’s student story project ties into the center’s mission--to discuss “the full range of values... pertinent to the human condition.” Here, you can learn of experiences from all over SUU campus shared through art, photography, audio, and the written word.
The Danger of a Single Story
"I choose right now compassion, respect, understanding, engagement, love, humanity, democracy. I choose seeing myself in the person most unlike me as a daily, hourly task as a patriotic American."
- Maria Hinojosa, 2017 Grace A. Tanner Lecture
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