Dr. Jean P. Rattigan-Rohr is the Executive Director of Community Partnerships, Director of the Center of Access and Success, and Associate Professor of Education at Elon University. She is also the founder and director of Elon University’s “It Takes a Village” Project. Rattigan-Rohr’s research area includes literacy development of traditionally marginalized students, parental involvement and […]
Emma Warman, Elon senior, talks about her study abroad trip to Senegral and the sexual assault that shattered her experience. Her story of transformation includes healing and support following the assault, and a determination to make things better for others. “What I hope that you can take from my story, is it’s not about me […]
Kelsea Johnson is a Washington, DC native and proud member of the Elon community. She serves as Student Government Association’s Senior Class President, and is an active participant in LEAF at Elon. LEAF (Lutherans, Episcopalians, and Friends) has been an important part of Kelsea’s Elon experience since her freshman year. After graduating this May, Kelsea […]
Jason K. Aryeh, assistant professor of dance, tells his story of challenge and transformation as a young African who grew up in a village where LGBT-identified individuals were perceived as deviant, and physical violence against them was commonplace. Aryeh shares experiences of well-intentioned friends who seek to “cure” him rather than accepting his identity. He […]
Fr. Peter grew up outside of Buffalo, NY in a devoutly Catholic family. He has four brothers, one of whom is a fraternal twin. He spent his academic career studying theology and philosophy and is an avid woodworker and furniture maker. Prior to coming to Elon he was ordained in 2012, served in a parish […]
Iliana Brodsky, a senior majoring in Religious Studies and Music, tells her personal story of Passover. “My story is the story of Passover. It’s the story of oppression, of bondage, and of slavery, and the story of liberation and of joy and of all the work that’s implicated in that, and of all the work […]
Charles F. Irons, Professor of History and the Chair of the Department of History and Geography, talks about the three encounters that were so transformative that they make him cry to this day. Professor Irons teaches courses on slavery, the Civil War, American religious history, and the nineteenth-century South, and his research is on the […]
Charlie Cheema is from Wilmington, NC, but he has lived all over the East Coast. He attended the North Carolina School of Science and Math, a public boarding school in Durham for high school. He is a sophomore Human Services Studies major with a minot in Adventure Based Learning, and is also currently creating an […]