G.O. Team: Dominican Republic Talks with Poet-Scholar, Joshua Bennett

Literature scholar and The Strivers Row poet, Joshua Bennett, met with G.O. Team D.R. last night during its weekly meeting. They had an amazing conversation engaging themes of race, faith, identity, anti-blackness, intersectionality, & forms of oppression using W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk as a starting point. Their conversation with Joshua will provide the content for the first series of probing reflections from G.O. Team: D.R.

Dwayne David Paul

L to R top: Sharoze, Nelcida, Cassie, Ahmed, Althea, Dwayne, Joshua, Gibson; Bottom: Rachel, Rocco, Genesis, Lindsey

A Few Photos from G.O. Team 2013

What Is Global Outreach: Service & Solidarity?

Global Outreach: Service & Solidarity is an opportunity for the students of Saint Peter’s University to experience the truly global nature of their Jesuit education by volunteering, learning, and living in community domestically and internationally. We offer multiple immersion trips annually in which students critically engage the issues at hand. The program’s organizing principle is twofold: First, that consideration of how one might apply one’s education, talents, and passion in service of those at the margins is an integral element of a robust, humanizing education. Secondly, that this is most fruitfully accomplished when one is in solidarity – when one recognizes the common humanity and dignity – with those for and with whom one labors.