Thoughts from Dawn Wallace For the last two years, I’ve spent a good part of my summer in a lovely beach town in California. Nestled in the sweetest little bungalow, 100 feet from the Pacific Ocean, and mere minutes from…

Thoughts from Dawn Wallace Shortly after college graduation, a dear friend moved to Australia to study at the University of Melbourne, married an Aussie native, and never left. We’ve stayed in touch over the years, and last week, we happily…

Thoughts from Dawn Wallace Yesterday morning, I wrote the message below, before the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. What I wrote now seems frivolous and tone-deaf. I write about my own musings as a parent—minor frustrations, little…

Thoughts from Dawn Wallace In the mid-1970s, my family immigrated to the United States. I have very few happy memories of living in my birth country or leaving it. However, one charming memory persists to this day from our 14-hour…

Thoughts from Dawn Wallace In the summer of 1995, alongside nearly 1,000 people, I attended a very special naturalization ceremony—my own. I remember so many intense feelings—everything between an overwhelming sense of relief and finality juxtaposed with a sense of…

Thoughts from Danielle Underwood, Arizona Center for Civic Leadership Program Coordinator   When I was younger, my dad would force—I mean strongly encourage—my siblings and me to create Black History Month presentations on an influential Black person we admired. More…

Thoughts from Dawn Wallace Happy New Year! While 2022 hasn’t started out exactly as I hoped—after two years of dodging COVID, my family finally came face to face with the new variant, “He Who Must Not Be Named”—our cases are…