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    Exploring Your Identity

    Pursuing Activism and Research

    As a Grinnell student, you can engage in meaningful activism on campus and in the wider world.

    Bethany Willig ’23 says she appreciates the multicultural student groups she belongs to, Black Faith and Concerned Black Students. “I just love how dedicated the students on this campus are.”

    Supportive faculty members have helped Willig find research opportunities and fellowships to achieve her dream of attending grad school and becoming a professor herself. “I’ve been really thankful for those connections I’ve made,” she says.

    I've grown up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a biracial family. So I've always been thinking about race. And when I came to Grinnell, I sort of unofficially took this route of studying Black Studies where I've taken English courses on Black writers and art history courses on Black artists and music courses on Black music. I can take whatever I want. In a lot of ways Grinnell has lived up to my expectations, and I've had really supportive faculty who've helped me get research opportunities and fellowships. I've been really thankful for those connections I've made. I'm personally a part of a two-year research program, which is the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, where I have a couple of different faculty members helping advise me and preparing me to go to grad school so I can become a professor. I really appreciate the multicultural orgs on campus. I'm heavily involved with Black Faith, which is a student group on campus, and Concerned Black Students, which is the Black Student Union on campus. And I just love how dedicated the students on this campus are.

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