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HDS communications reached out to our 2021 graduating students to hear from them in their own words about their experiences at HDS, the people who've helped and inspired them along their grad school journeys, and their plans for the future. Words of...

HDS student Sidra Ali on growing up in the culturally homogenous suburbs of Detroit, how food helps develop positive relationships with neighbors, and the aesthetics of identity.

HDS student Suzannah Omonuk wrote a poem imagining what life was like for an enslaved woman who lived and worked on campus in the 18th century.

HDS student Willie Bodrick II spoke on WBUR Radio Boston about the meaning of the George Zimmerman verdict and its meaning to African American communities.

Overcoming tough times, former surfing champion and new HDS grad Mary Setterholm helps others turn their lives around.

Lauren Taylor, who studies public health and medical ethics at HDS, writes in The New Yorker about health care reform.

For Kalpana Jain, it is all about the power of voice. An investigative journalist from India, she has devoted her working life to giving voice to the voiceless by delving into social issues too often ignored or dismissed.

MTS candidate Shira Telushkin writes about how apologizing before Yom Kippur can go right, or wrong.

HDS student Heather Rick talks about her unlikely road to HDS, the role of writers in today's political climate, and how she found inspiration in Muslim punk rock.

Guila Clara Kessous, HDS post doctoral fellow for 2015-16, reflects on the influence of her teacher and friend Elie Wiesel.

Christina Désert is a second-year master of divinity candidate, a social worker, and activist from Haiti.

On the HDS Admissions blog, student Eboni Nash, MTS '21, writes about her recent conversation with abolitionist and activist Professor Angela Davis.