When it came to college, the third time was the charm for Dilynn Everitt ’26
First up was a false start at the University of Michigan, where the troubles began before she even walked in the door.
The university tried to charge the St. Louis, Michigan, native out-of-state tuition, “because I think they assumed I was from Missouri, like I was smart enough to attend their college but not smart enough to know my state’s abbreviation,” Everitt said. She spent one miserable week there before transferring to Central Michigan University because it was close to home.
She started at CMU as a pre-med student, switched briefly to engineering, and still felt lost and lonely on a teaching track when she decided to take a gap year.
“I didn’t want to be at CMU, but I didn’t know where I did want to be, and I also didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life,” Everitt said.
She did some substitute teaching—which ended any interest in being a teacher—took community college classes, engaged in self-reflection, worked at Bath & Body Works and visited other colleges.
Her family encouraged her to consider private colleges. Although Everitt remained convinced the tuition cost would pose an insurmountable hurdle for her family’s finances, she agreed to tour Kalamazoo College at the urging of her paternal grandmother, whose sister had attended K.
“My visit here just felt right,” Everitt said. “When I was walking around campus, I was smiling and asking a bunch of questions, and my tour guide was super nice, and they were talking about how even though K is one of the most expensive colleges in Michigan, it ends up being affordable. My (maternal) grandma came with us, and when we left, she said, ‘I don’t even know why we would bother visiting any other colleges, because I think you want to go here.’”
Reflecting on the women who pointed her toward K, Everitt said, “Thank God for grandmas.”
Financial aid made it possible for Everitt to attend K, including the MEL Scholarship, established in fall 2022 as part of the Brighter Light Campaign by Emily Richardson-Rossbach ’09, named in honor and appreciation for her classmates and friends Molly Sass, Morgan Locsei, Michelle Keating, Erin Dreps, Emily Rhodes and Lucy Arlit.
“Anytime I get a scholarship, it means a lot to me because my family doesn’t have very much money,” Everitt said. “When I saw my financial aid and the scholarships that I got and how much money I actually would owe, it was like this weight off my shoulders. I didn’t think I would be able to come here; it’s way more affordable than I thought it was going to be. My parents were shocked and relieved, too, when I told them how much money we owe.”
Dilynn Everitt ’26 found her perfect fit at Kalamazoo College with the help of financial aid, including the MEL Scholarship, established as part of the Brighter Light Campaign.
The MEL Scholarship in particular is a fitting gift for Everitt, who values the community at K above all else.
“I really like how small and tight-knit it is,” she said. “I can’t go to another building without seeing somebody that I know. Everywhere I go, I wave to somebody. At CMU, it was huge, and I felt really lonely. Here, it’s hard to feel alone.”
People who happen to take the same class become true friends. Her fellow resident assistants spend time bonding not just because it’s a required part of the job, but because they enjoy spending time together. Group projects feel more like a social opportunity than a stressful academic undertaking.
Staff members go out of their way to connect and help. Residence Life Area Coordinator Hunter Causie lets Everitt spend time with his dog and shares extra meal swipes with her. Dan Kibby, enrollment systems manager in the Admission Office, helped Everitt with transfer student logistics, and he didn’t stop there. At move-in, he introduced himself to her parents, and he and his wife showed her around, took her to the store and made her cookies. He continues to check in with her.
Faculty, too, offer opportunities for connection. Everitt appreciates when professors treat students like adults, build a relationship and remember students after classes end. She has especially enjoyed classes with Charles Stull, senior instructor of economics, and Amy MacMillan, L. Lee Stryker Associate Professor of Business Management and chair of the business department.
Despite choosing a business major for practical reasons, Everitt has enjoyed learning about her chosen field of study.
“It’s a very versatile degree,” she said. “I’m a people person. I like to talk to people, and I’m good at selling things. All the puzzles were fitting together, and it seemed practical. It surprised me how much I liked all my business classes.”
Since starting at K in the fall of 2023, Everitt has been studying business and psychology (her minor) and working as a resident assistant, working in the theatre department as an office and costume shop assistant and as a teaching assistant for business statistics. She started a steel drum club and has participated in K-Rock and student government.
As a transfer student, Everitt has varied the order of her K-Plan from the typical progression. She is in the midst of her Senior Integrated Project—a paper based on a summer accounting internship—and her tentative plan is to study abroad in Madrid next year and graduate in 2026.
After that, she expects to look for a job in marketing or sales—something where she can interact with people, get out from behind a desk and employ some creative freedom.
“At the end of the day, I just want to make sure this College knows that I’m happy that I was able to transfer here,” Everitt said. “My parents were worried about me, especially my mental health, and every time I come home, they’re so happy to hear about how well I’m doing.”
Scholarships opened the door to exploration for Tracy Galeana ’25
Tracy Galeana ’25 leans hard into faith that the future will work out. As a first-generation student from the small border town of Brownsville, Texas, she came to Kalamazoo College with no example to follow and very little sense of the College beyond photos on the website.
While forging her path at K and finding her people, Galeana has held tight to that optimism for herself and those who come after her. As it turns out, her openness to exploration and variety has made her well-suited to K’s open curriculum, academic calendar and diverse community.
Despite changing her major and minor at least six times, Galeana expects to graduate in the spring with an art history major, a Spanish minor, and concentrations both in film and media and in women, gender and sexuality.
“I came in here like, I’m just going to see what happens,” Galeana said. “I’ve always been the type of person to try something out, and I changed my major and minor so many times.”
It wasn’t always as easy as that sounds.
“I definitely felt stuck my freshman year,” Galeana said. “I saw all my friends, like, ‘I know what I want to do, and I know what I’m here for.’ And I didn’t know. I felt really lost.”
When Anne Marie Butler, assistant professor of art history and women, gender, and sexuality, became Galeana’s advisor, Butler offered some crucial guidance.
“I had limited myself to thinking that what I major in, that’s what the rest of my life is going to look like,” Galeana said. “I was stressed out, and she said, ‘You have time. What you pick right now doesn’t have to be what you want later. You can change your major and minor, and later in life, you could do a job that’s completely different from what you graduated with.’”
That advice reassured Galeana, whose preference for a frequent change of pace matches perfectly with K’s 10-week terms.
“I feel like I can learn so many things, taking different classes every three months,” she said. “It’s good for my mental health and helps me not get stuck in, ‘I’m taking so long to do this; what if it’s not the right thing and I’m wasting my time?’ It gave me time to try a little bit of everything.”
Outside of the classroom, the Latinx Student Organization (LSO) eased her homesickness, and the broader campus community offered the chance to get to know people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures.
“K has helped me develop as a person,” Galeana said. “I’ve become more well-rounded. There’s so much diversity. There are people with different ideologies, people that come from so many different places—places I’d never even heard of—you have to be open-minded. I have a huge interest in traveling now. I want to visit the places my friends are from and be more culturally knowledgeable. Knowing people with different backgrounds opens up space for friendship, and I think friendship is the best thing I’ve gotten from K.”
In addition to the LSO, Galeana has been involved with the fashion club, tutored with the Swim for Success program as well as Community Advocates for Parents and Students (CAPS) through the Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Center for Civic Engagement, and currently chairs the Monte Carlo planning committee. She also worked as a resident assistant in Trowbridge and now is a senior resident assistant in Severn and Crissey. She completed an internship at the Brownsville Museum of Fine Arts and is writing about the experience for her Senior Integrated Project.
Many of those experiences have featured similar themes of community and mentoring. Galeana finds herself applying to her own situation the lessons she works to impart to students in the tutoring programs, younger dorm residents, and siblings and friends back home. As the example she lacked coming to college, she wants to inspire younger students as well as herself.
Tracy Galeana ’25 brings an openness to exploration and a desire for variety and community to her first-generation college student experience—an experience supported and enriched by scholarships like the Class of 1968 Endowed Scholarship.
“These kids and these underclassmen are looking at me, and I’m the main face they’re going to see when they think about college or about K,” Galeana said. “I’m trying my best to show them that it’s possible. There were times when I wanted to give up, so when I try to teach the kids that problems are temporary, I have to apply that mentality to my classes and projects as well. That has shaped me into being less hard on myself, because I wouldn’t be mean to them; why would I be mean to myself?”
Galeana also finds inspiration in an unexpected place: the Kalamazoo College Class of 1968.
The Class of 1968 Endowed Scholarship, established in 2021 as part of the Brighter Light campaign, has helped make Kalamazoo College possible for Galeana throughout her time at K.
“The Class of 1968 has been kind enough to help other K students through their progress in college,” Galeana said. “They made it, and I can also make it, and I hope to keep the cycle going after I graduate to help others with funding as well.”
Without financial aid, Galeana would not be at K. In addition to the practical impact, scholarships provide Galeana and her family with emotional support. Each scholarship both lifts a financial burden and reinforces—especially for her mom—that Galeana is working hard and succeeding, so far from home.
“If I didn’t have the scholarships that I do, I wouldn’t be here or have the opportunities I have now,” Galeana said. “It also means there are people out there who, even though I don’t know them personally, believe in my cause, and believe in me, and they want to see me succeed how they have succeeded.
“I have a sibling back home in 11th grade. He’s starting to look at colleges, and he’s like, ‘Tracy, I don’t know what to do.’ I see myself in him, and I didn’t have anyone to teach me what college was, or to support me through college, so I knew that I had to be that person for my sibling. I’m trying to hype him up and be like, yeah, do it. Read about what they have, apply, and if it doesn’t work out, it’s fine; that’s not the end of your path.
“That applies to my brother, it applies to all the underclassmen, and it applies to me. I know there’s something out there for me. Even though I don’t know yet what it is, it’s going to work out.”
The Brighter Light Campaign set and exceeded its goal not once, but twice, and became K’s most successful fundraising effort ever.
What a difference six years can make. The Brighter Light Campaign, which began quietly in 2018 and launched publicly in 2021, set out to make a transformative impact on the campus and community of Kalamazoo College. And at the campaign’s end, there are scholarships, professorships, new and refurbished spaces, resources for study abroad and senior projects—endowments that will last forever and opportunities that will carry on for generations.
Individuals and organizations that believe wholeheartedly in K’s tradition of liberal arts, experiential education, and international and intercultural experiences gave generously. Even through the challenge of a global pandemic, our community answered the call. When our $150 million goal was surpassed, we set a $190 million goal to mark our 190th year. And our supporters exceeded it.
As excited and grateful as we are to share the numbers below, the true success of our campaign is reflected in the stories of students, faculty and staff, who, thanks to your generosity, are able to pursue their dreams, develop their talents, further their scholarship, strengthen their teaching and bring a brighter light to the world. You make that possible. Lux Esto!
The Brighter Light Campaign raised over $90 million to create Brighter Experiences for K students through campus improvements, athletics, arts programs and the Kalamazoo College Fund.
Efforts to enhance our beautiful and historic campus with welcoming and modernized spaces for students to live, learn and play are already underway. Stetson Chapel renovation, construction of the natatorium, and a new roof for Dow Science Center are complete.
Many classrooms have received technology upgrades along with new paint, flooring, and furniture that supports collaborative and active learning, and those improvements continue. Less visible yet no less important, improvements including new electrical infrastructure and more efficient heating and cooling systems make other projects possible across campus.
For Hornet student-athletes, who comprise 33% of K’s student population, growth in endowed and annual funding means better equity across programs—including improvements to women’s locker rooms; office space improvement; and more robust program budgets, which (among other things) help with equipment and uniforms, travel expenses and meals, and recruiting and retaining coaches. For K musicians, the keyboard renewal project funded the restoration of the College’s fleet of performance pianos, added new baby grand pianos to classroom and studio spaces, and updated the instrument collection in many of our practice rooms, enhancing the quality of pianos and keyboards for practice, advanced study, and performances.
Looking to the future, a $30 million gift from an anonymous donor is making it possible for K to imagine new inclusive residential spaces, replacing dormitories designed for the campus experience of 50–100 years ago. While planning for the College’s first new residence hall since Crissey Hall opened its doors in 1967, K seeks to create residential life programs that embed K-Plan program resources, build living-learning spaces into residence halls and serve as a bridge to the local community.
The Kalamazoo College Natatorium is home to the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams. Features include eight competition lanes, a separate diving area, a dryland training area, spectator viewing areas and locker rooms. The natatorium offers open swim for faculty, staff and students. For the Kalamazoo community, it offers opportunities for community-based programs such as Swim for Success.
Investments in athletics, including upgraded locker rooms, make a difference in the lives of K student-athletes and contribute to morale and pride throughout the College.
Before: A classroom in Dewing Hall pre-renovation.
After: This renovated classroom in Dewing features flexible furniture designed for adaptable learning spaces ready to inspire creativity and connection.
Stetson Chapel stands in the center of campus at the top of the College’s “fair Arcadian hill,” and is an integral part of campus and the Kalamazoo community. Updates were needed to ensure its structural integrity and to improve the chapel’s accessibility, utility and energy efficiency. Repairs included structural repairs to the bell tower, sealing areas in the foundation, replacement of windows in the main chapel, roofing repairs, a replacement ramp for the accessible entryway, improved accessibility features for the bathrooms and improvements to the chapel interior and lower-level spaces.
Gifts to the Kalamazoo College Fund contributed $23.7 million to our historic campaign. Each contribution, regardless of size, immediately impacts the student experience, allowing K to address emerging priorities and areas of greatest need—opening doors, igniting potential and nurturing the next generation of leaders and innovators. Thank you for your support!
In 2023, Kalamazoo College students were offered a new study abroad opportunity, thanks to a competitive fellowship established by alumnus Robert Sherbin ’79.
The Jerry Sherbin Fellowship, named in honor of Robert Sherbin’s father, provides one K senior with a stipend to pursue an academic year post-graduation outside the United States, independently exploring a subject of deep personal interest.
Elle Waldron ’23—a women, gender and sexuality (WGS) major at K—was thrilled to be the first fellow selected from seven applicants in the fellowship’s inaugural year. Her proposal was to visit a variety of feminist and gender-equity organizations to witness the tools and strategies they use to execute their work and complete their goals. She also wanted her investigations to yield long-term relationships with people from around the world. The process would sharpen her critical-thinking skills so she could define feminism from a global perspective as it’s influenced by a variety of historical and cultural contexts.
Sherbin Fellow Elle Waldron ’23 spent a week in Cape Town during a nearly two-month stay in South Africa. In all, Waldron spent an academic year overseas, intending to visit feminist and gender-equity organizations to witness the tools and strategies they use to execute their work and complete their goals.
“Deciding how to define and use the word ‘feminism’ has always been difficult for me and a frequent question, but the word grounded me in my values and gave me a direction, even if it was quite flexible and vague,” Waldron said. “I thought my experiences abroad would provide a marker or a signal to like-minded people who might share my values.”
But as many K students and alumni discover in travels abroad, Waldron found that her plans and perspectives changed thanks to chance and a first-hand view of other cultures that shifted her philosophies. In fact, the word “feminism” proved to have limited power within the scope of her projects.
“I struggled because I found, especially in Australia and New Zealand, that the reality of the word is tied to whiteness and heteronormativity, meaning that it can’t be a definition for all people,” Waldron said. “I think feminism is a personal definition, and I can’t define it from a global perspective because it looks different in every cultural context. It’s impossible to apply one’s own definition of feminism to someone else.”
As a result, Waldron instead gained a deeper understanding of community development that will help build her career. She learned how people around the world develop supportive relationships in order to live and work together. And now that she’s returned to Michigan, her fellowship will conclude with a reflection provided to Sherbin from her travels, which took her from Australia to New Zealand, to South Africa, to Costa Rica and to Spain.
Queensland, Australia
Waldron focused on staying in one place as long as she could, knowing it could give her more of a local perspective rather than that of a tourist. The Sunshine Coast area of Queensland, Australia, was her first stop and turned out to be the longest time in one location.
She stayed with a family after connecting with one of their relatives in Michigan, leading to her first community-development work.
“When I arrived, they left me a spare key for when they weren’t home, and I kind of jumped into their lives,” Waldron said. “We spent a lot of time cooking dinner together and going to family events, and I spent a lot of the weekdays working at a local community center.”
At the community center, she volunteered at the reception desk; helped visitors connect with available support through local resources; made phone calls for the Pets for Life Program, which connected seniors with pet-care volunteers; and joined or set up space for weekly social clubs. She also worked on a project for the family support team—a group like Child and Protective Services in the U.S.—that showed how they believed their work reflected the organization’s new mission statement.
Waldron volunteered at a reception desk in Queensland, Australia, where she greeted community members and referred callers to local resources such as food banks, senior support services and wildlife hospitals.
For this report, Waldron conducted interviews, surveys and analysis, while offering suggestions for feminist framework.
The community center was where Waldron began to question her goal of defining feminism on a global scale.
“I found that community development is the way of asking how people are supporting each other, how they’re building intentional relationships and walking alongside one another,” Waldron said. “It was a method that I wanted to look at and follow on my journey because I found the vocabulary of feminism and the definition that I follow to be difficult to define.”
Auckland, New Zealand
Waldron’s visit to New Zealand included a visit to Tongariro National Park.
Waldron added a stop in New Zealand when she realized that much of South Africa shuts down for the holiday season in December. Despite finding no long-term volunteer positions, she found more opportunities to work in community development through business meetings—often called community development hui, which is a Mãori word for meeting—alongside her hosts. In places such as community centers, nongovernment organizations, and government organizations local to a particular area of the city, Waldron, as a guest, networked, brainstormed around current issues and celebrated recent accomplishments with community leaders.
She noted that places like community centers and neighborhood organizations “offer support to people who are struggling or looking for connection in their lives. That might be with housing, food assistance or building friendships and relationships while offering a common location. I found that to be a helpful space for me, so I jumped in when I got there.”
Being there in December, Waldron said she tried to volunteer in ways that would be representative of day-to-day life.
Waldron participated in community events in New Zealand such as a Santa Parade.
“I attended holiday parties and choir concerts,” she said. “I even volunteered in a Santa parade and dressed as a tui bird. I grew the most socially and built deep relationships in Australia and New Zealand.”
Cape Town, Johannesburg and Koloni, South Africa
Waldron’s global experiences then threw a curve ball with the country that challenged her yet taught her the most.
“I had spent a lot of time while I was in New Zealand facilitating a relationship with a professor in South Africa who was doing research that I was really interested in,” Waldron said. “I wanted to volunteer as a part of her project. We had video calls and spent some time navigating through what my role would look like, and she helped me connect with others to find housing in Stellenbosch, which is quite close to Cape Town.”
District Six Museum commemorates a community before apartheid.
However, with no explanation, the professor stopped answering Waldron’s emails about three weeks before she was set to arrive, forcing her at the last minute to figure out what her time there would involve. On top of that, Waldron’s contacts provided some scary warnings about what it was like to travel in South Africa, especially for a woman traveling alone.
Waldron connected with her hosts while staying in South Africa.
Thankfully, she had a strong support system of friends and family that reached out through WhatsApp and email, along with Akil Cornelius, a former K professor who lived in South Africa. As it turned out, many of the rumors she heard about South Africa’s safety were exaggerated. It all led to opportunities shadowing filmmakers, companies and nonprofits in Johannesburg, and work driven by storytelling and the advice she received abroad.
“I had a lot of conversations with women and strangers who became friends and a new support system,” Waldron said. “A lot of it was about tales of their regrets, successes and hopes in life. And one of the most profound pieces of advice was from a friend I met in New Zealand, who told me that the most important things I can learn while traveling solo will be from other women. She guided me to focus on these informal conversations I was having with other women and really listen to learn about their lives and what was important to them. That was a huge piece of my journey.”
San José, Costa Rica
Upon setting off to Costa Rica, Waldron remembered more advice she received from back home.
“The advice was to not be fearful about making mistakes in Spanish,” she said. “To allow myself to be bad at language because it’s the only way to improve.”
Waldron lived in San José, Costa Rica, for a while before moving to a rural area.
Waldron had taken Spanish at K, but it was during the COVID-19 pandemic when all her courses were online. She never learned how to speak Spanish well because she was afraid of making errors. She got to Costa Rica and couldn’t communicate in the grocery store line or even order her coffee. Yet, she immersed herself there, and it provided some big benefits.
“When I was at K, I decided that I wanted to go into nonprofit work, and in Michigan, it’s helpful to have Spanish-speaking skills, so I thought this would be a great opportunity,” Waldron said. “My month in San José was almost entirely focused on learning Spanish because I needed it to move forward with my reflection project and learn more about community support. But it was also a good spot because a lot of the teachers at the Spanish school I attended spoke English and were having conversations with me about Costa Rican history, about the welfare state and community support. That was helpful, and they were a great resource for me in making connections. They connected me with a family I could rent a room from, and they agreed to help me find an internship or volunteering role.”
Demonstrators participate in an International Women’s Day rally in San José, Costa Rica.
Ultimately, Waldron learned she appreciated rural life more than big cities while staying in Costa Rica. As a result, a connection at the Spanish school, the Institute for Central American Development Studies (ICADS), pointed her toward another family who lived about an hour south of the Nicaraguan border. Waldron moved there for her second month in Costa Rica because she was interested in Asociaciòn de Productores de Cacao de Agro Ambientalistas de Guatuso, an organization partly led by women who supported cacao farmers while offering what she called a unique form of support.
“I got an opportunity to integrate more into Costa Rican life,” she said. “I did a lot of cooking with the family, and I basically shadowed one of the family’s daughters for a month. She was going into meetings in town, hanging out with friends and spending time with family. I continued to practice my Spanish, and I would say that I grew the most intellectually in Costa Rica because I was immersed in families and situations that didn’t offer translation. It was a different type of learning than what I had in South Africa or Australia and New Zealand.”
Spain
In Spain, Waldron visited Merida, a city that dates back to the Roman Empire.
By the time Waldron arrived in Spain, she had done enough shadowing in nonprofits to conclude that her Spanish skills were lacking for nonprofit work. She decided community-based work might be a better fit for her, an idea she confirmed upon using K’s alumni directory to contact Heide Taylor ’10, who lives in Spain. The connection helped Waldron search for and find her next role.
“I was interested in exploring other avenues, and I found a creative arts center in a tiny southern Spanish town,” Waldron said. “I volunteered with gardening and cleaning. It helped me secure accommodations, and it still allowed me to be in that space to have conversations.”
The arts center brought in resident artists from all over the world while hosting other volunteers and Ukrainian refugees. It allowed Waldron to build friendships with women from Argentina, Ukraine and Spain while having conversations with the center’s directors to learn about their work.
In Ubeda, Spain, Waldron volunteered at an arts center that brought in resident artists from all over the world while hosting other volunteers and Ukrainian refugees.
Global Wrap-up
Waldron admitted that by the time that her work in Spain concluded her fellowship adventure, she was mentally exhausted from planning on the fly so often.
“I think part of the amazing thing about this fellowship is that it’s really adaptable,” she said. “I added New Zealand because I found a logistical error, and when my volunteering role fell through in South Africa, I pivoted quickly to a different way of learning without repercussions from the donor or the College. And that’s incredibly special. But it also means that I was trying to be present in moments that were completely new to me while fully processing experiences.”
At the end of her trip, she extended her time abroad at her own expense to meet contacts in Turkey, England, Scotland and Luxembourg.
“It had been something I planned a few months previously, so I was prepared for it,” Waldron said. “I was feeling exhausted and simultaneously trying to be appreciative that I’d had the privileges of seeing so many places and continuing to travel.”
A few months after returning to the States, Waldron shared highlights from her fellowship with the K community in a presentation on campus during Homecoming. She described the challenges and joys she experienced in her months abroad and how her conversations with women around the world helped her refine the original objective of her journey.
“You might be wondering how all this comes together as ‘feminist methods,’ especially as I consider my own necessity, or lack thereof, to use that word,” Waldron said to the crowd. “But for me, this is what it looks like to center actions, thought processes and relationships formed with the intention of recognizing the way gender and sexuality structure society and culture, and interact with other systems of oppression.
“For my version of feminism, community support is central and paramount in creating new systems and worlds, although it is important to acknowledge that this idea is not unique to me and my experiences. I have gathered it from this journey and from the incredible research and writing taught in courses at this college, particularly by feminists of color, about community support.
Waldron with a host during her stay in South Africa.
“And the overarching answer to that question I asked, ‘What feminist methods and processes outside of state institutions are feminists using today? How are they supporting and connecting people?’ Through my travels, volunteering and conversations, I have found women who have offered vulnerability and support through telling stories to other women about their lives. They bestowed me with tales of their regrets, successes and hopes. Their tales combined pain and incredible hope to imagine a world in which we have support systems and unimaginable and diverse examples of success. Despite my inability to offer roots in their neighborhoods, families and friendships, they offered me such support and love and demonstrated that successful, joyous lives are constantly evolving and filled with millions of satisfying and astounding options and versions. They were family, neighbors and friends to me.
“This is the feminist strategy I was seeking, and this is how people are being supported. Conversations between women offer vulnerability, compassion, community and comaraderie to other women through storytelling and dialogue.”
