Rhea Carter ‘20 developed her passion for Appalachia at Berea and is now dedicated to a career of service to her home region. Photo Courtesy: Bethany Posey ’18…
Andreea Teban ‘19 completed her BereaCorps program working in the Labor office as a training associate. Today, she is the associate director of digital annual giving at Berea…
The Berea College campus looks and feels different than when President Lyle D. Roelofs arrived 11 years ago. Physically, his presidency has been marked by a busy time…
Nina Yarbrough ’09 never dreamed she’d be a patron of the arts. The poet and playwright imagined she’d be on the other side, the one asking for money…
“Berea found me,” remembers Ariel Owens Williams ’14. Williams grew up and lived in Hawaii, but her father moved them to Kentucky for a short period of time…
On her father’s shelf, Concepta ’23 found a book written in a mysterious language. The symbols on the cover—C++—were a computer language she would not understand for some…
In the early part of the 1980s, as Jodi Gentry ’87 was thinking about college, her options were not limited. Though living in rural Florida in a single-income…
Growing up in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Sierra N. Turner ’19 was accustomed to a highly diverse environment. It was uncommon to make assumptions about an individual’s race based…
Not too long ago, there was a girl at the Cincinnati Ballet who loved to dance. She loved other things, too, like art and playing school with her…
As a baby, Dr. Jamilah Page wanted to be included when her mom was cooking; she’d cry if her mother wasn’t holding her. Even as a toddler, Page…