As the mother of an autistic son, Rosann Richards, a Rutgers-Newark staffer, knows there are few children’s books featuring characters on the spectrum. Although she never wrote a book before, she created “Tylor’s Authentic Smile: A Sibling Book About Autism.''
The Center for Politics and Race in America was named in honor of the late-Lt. Gov. Sheila Y. Oliver, the first Black woman in New Jersey to hold statewide office, at a special ceremony. A scholarship program, funded by Johnson & Johnson, was also announced.
After gaining experience at Rutgers Law School's Immigrant Rights Clinic in Newark, two newly minted attorneys whose families navigated the immigration system will be working as staff attorneys to represent detained immigrants.
Liz Ševčenko's book, Public History for a Post-Truth Era: Fighting Denial Through Memory Movements, explores how public memory projects can confront the past and activate social change.
Solcyre Burga was inspired by her journalism professors to report on educational inequities. She now works at TIME magazine as a fact-checker and reporter.