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Ashley

 Ashley

A student with a mixed background (Italian, German, African American) talks about her experiences in her hometown Queens and also here in Geneseo.
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Fatima L. Rodriguez Johnson
A biracial (African-American and Puerto Rican) woman tells the story of navigating her community and family with physical characteristics that have defined her as one cultural background.

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Robert E. Owens
A gay man talks about his experiences growing up and the challenges he faces in trying to be with his partner who is from another country.

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Dr. Linda House
This "voices" discusses the trauma of being diagnosed with breast cancer and triumph of "beating" it.

 Voices maleA Person From Afar
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Tom Matthews
Growing up in rural New York, seeing a minstrel show, and a lesson learned from using a stereotype phrase. 

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Abby E.F.

A student speaks about her experiences dealing with clinical depressionas well as the onset of bipolar disorder during her second semester at Geneseo.

 Ahmed
 

Ahmed
A student struggles to hold on to two distinct and rather opposite cultures in his search for self-identity.

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A Geneseo faculty member shares her experiences growing up Jewish in the former Soviet Union and then finding strength in her identity when she became an American. 
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Charlie Genao
Student dealing with the challenges of Asperger Syndrome. 

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A first-generation American talks about her experiences growing up with immigrant parents and the challenges and benefits associated with learning to incorporate multiple cultures into her identity.
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Kerry Haugh
Growing up with a brother with autism.

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Jaclyn Vetrano

Explaining how she was affected by going to a different high school than her sister, but the same college.

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Tommie Pomeroy
Struggles of being a non-traditional student.
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Kian is a Jewish Persian-Israeli from Great Neck, New York.  In this clip he talks about his experiences at Geneseo and how it ultimately changed him. 
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Jenny Katz

Some real moments from an unreal motherhood.


 Voices femaleA student discusses her experience with a relationship built through the internet.
 

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Michael Roff

An explanation of how he came out to his mother.

 Voices female Lwam Tecleab
An Eritrean-American student.
 

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 Silvia Roma

Experience as a dual citizen (Spanish and American) yet having to pretend that her American citizenship didn't exist.

  
    
    
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