By Andrew McDonald
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Farzana is a recipient of the 2019-2020 MALA Scholarship Program, which seeks to assist rising leaders in the pursuit of higher education through the art of storytelling. Finally on my own. I began my journey of finding myself and understanding who I am in college. At home, I grew up feeling though I had […]
Aliah is a recipient of the 2019-2020 MALA Scholarship Program, which seeks to assist rising leaders in the pursuit of higher education through the art of storytelling. As a child, I thought my family was famous. With a confined six-year-old perspective, there was no other explanation as to why strangers would stare. My mom had […]
Zain is a recipient of the 2019-2020 MALA Scholarship Program, which seeks to assist rising leaders in the pursuit of higher education through the art of storytelling. A thinker, explorer, and hard worker are all words that encompass who I am. I owe this identity to my scouting experiences, starting from when I was […]
Mykal is a recipient of the 2019-2020 MALA Scholarship Program, which seeks to assist rising leaders in the pursuit of higher education through the art of storytelling. My name is Mykal, not me-kal nor michael, but Mykal. Like the rest of my family, I grew up in the Big Eazy or New Orleans. I […]
Safia is a recipient of the 2019-2020 MALA Scholarship Program, which seeks to assist rising leaders in the pursuit of higher education through the art of storytelling. Identity! How do I identify myself? What is identity even? As a Muslim Somali girl growing up, my identity was masked by my comparison to my cousins. […]
Nabeeha is a recipient of the 2019-2020 MALA Scholarship Program, which seeks to assist rising leaders in the pursuit of higher education through the art of storytelling. Definitions are funny. They give you the phonetics, the parts of speech, examples when used in a sentence, maybe even synonyms and antonyms. However, they never give you […]
Sasan is a recipient of the 2019-2020 MALA Scholarship Program, which seeks to assist rising leaders in the pursuit of higher education through the art of storytelling. Eighteen years is not that much at first glance, but it has been long enough to challenge my strength and patience in different ways. My life has […]
