Archives - Efua Agyare-Kumi
Guns
Conference seeks to understand guns and their culture
Mariner hoped the conference would add more nuance to the conversation around guns in America and “deepen our understanding beyond right and left, white and black, innocent and guilty.”
Engineering
Workshop inspires ingenuity in local girls
The breakout sessions, designed for educative amusement, featured a mechanical engineering lab that involved making a rocket with Coke and mentos, an optics lesson on why stars twinkle, a chemical engineering lesson on making solar cells with berry juice, and more.
business
African business conference mixes heritage and finance
At times provocative and at others encouraging, speakers used the conference as an opportunity to share wisdom and advice with fellow aspiring African changemakers.
news
Activist alum speaks on LGBT issues in military
Perkowski works as a legal director for Outserve-SLDN, a non-profit association which serves members of the LGBT military community — a career he got into “by accident,” when a friend invited him to be on the board of the organization.
criminal system
Author Forman talks transforming the criminal system
His narrative focused on the political, historical, and imaginative constraints on these local leaders, which he used in explaining how a legal system with ample black leadership could still lead to the mass incarceration of African-Americans.
Learning Differences
Eye to Eye celebrates learning differences
As she explained her symptoms, which include trouble starting assignments, difficulty finding the right words to explain a situation, and poor short term memory, it became clear that the obstacles students with learning differences face are not unfamiliar to the average person.
Beyond Rochester
Dinner raises money for children displaced by Middle East conflict
About 250 guests attended the dinner, the proceeds of which are intended to fund education for children affected by the Middle Eastern refugee crisis.
