All doors were closed. That’s why Melissa Benson ’11 came to Berea College. “I was in my 30s,” she explained. “I had never finished…
Life events, timing and who you meet sometimes seem random and unremarkable. Other times, they line up in unexplainable ways that put into motion…
When Jonathan “JJ” Johnson ’99 thinks back on his childhood in Fairfield, Alabama, in greater Birmingham, he remembers a life that was both loving…
Sidwell Ferguson-English wasn’t sure at graduation in 2011 where his political science degree would lead him. Turns out it was to the largest library…
On a service trip to Ghana in 2003, Denessa Baters McPherson ’05, upon meeting the village chief, asked about acquiring a Ghanaian broom to…
It may seem that Cory Schlesinger ’09 is living the dream, but he longs for 50 acres and some chickens. For now, he is…
Nay Kaw ’23 and his brother Ehku ’26 were born into a country that had been at war with itself for 70 years. And…
Deep in the quiet hills of Jackson County, Kentucky, a young Talina Mathews ’89 held dreams of being a math teacher. In a place…