Volunteer Diaries: I am CriminalizedA year ago I was apprehended while on vacation in Greece visiting friends and family. I didn’t know it at the time, but this incident would…May 16, 2022May 16, 2022
Volunteer Diaries: Fieldwork“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.Jun 30, 2021Jun 30, 2021
Inauguration Day Thoughts: We Need Your Empathetic ImaginationJust imagine, for a moment, that your only option for safety is to push forward through a gauntlet of dangerous pathways towards a very…Jan 20, 2021Jan 20, 2021
Volunteer Diaries: Passports and Privilege and the Return to a Place You no Longer BelongThis is one of the most deeply personal things I have ever written and posted from the photo to the text. I truly am heartbroken that I am…Mar 5, 2020Mar 5, 2020
Action Item: The Healing of Generations of Global Trauma Starts Now with You and with MeTo this day, not one representative of the state has come forward and made an inspired effort to HEAL the generations of trauma that…Jun 24, 2019Jun 24, 2019
Leaving EdenThe Dean of my nursing program closed our first orientation session with this piece of advice. “How do we eat an apple? Do we shove the…Nov 3, 2017Nov 3, 2017
Discovering LoveSwipe. Swipe. Swipe. I was sitting on the sidewalk next to a railroad track that had not seen any traffic in months. My feet were planted…Mar 22, 2017Mar 22, 2017
December 12th, Let it not Happen AgainTo the world, This is the deepest day of grief I have ever experienced in my life. We are mourning the loss of my sweet grandfather, Tosh…Jan 5, 2017Jan 5, 2017
An open letter to my state representatives and politicians all over the globeMy name is Madi Williamson. I am a 21-year-old student from Bainbridge Island, Washington. I was raised in safety by a loving and healthy…Nov 20, 2016Nov 20, 2016
