From Brooklyn to Harvard: Building Global Bridges Through Diverse Classrooms

I will never forget the frigid January in Canarsie, Brooklyn, when several visibly shaken students entered my high school classroom just days after the catastrophic 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Among them was Natacha, a tenth-grader whose entire immediate family had perished in the disaster—a trauma compounded by her abrupt relocation to a new country and an unfamiliar educational system. Most of these students, including Natacha, arrived without even a winter coat, further accentua...