Members Pictured left-to-right: Fran Lopez-Martin, Tomicka Wagstaff, Alison Williams, Angie Tissi-Gassoway, Floyd Cheung, Brooke Vick, Gretchel Hathaway, Melissa Gonzalez, Nikki Young, Ted Mason, Anita Davis, Kijua Sanders-McMurtry, and Ashe Hacker.
Dinner with Smith College esteemed guest Loretta Ross
Pictured from left-to-right: Nikki Young, Brooke Vick, Loretta Ross, Ted Mason, and Gretchel Hathaway.
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Image looking up the center of Smith College's Neilson Library to the skylight that is surrounded by spiral stairs.
Outside of the Smith College Botanical Garden center, surrounded by an iron fence covered in vines.
Smith College Metasequoia without leaves.
Tree on Smith College's campus with connected quilted squares and fabric pom-poms attached.
Connector bridge between two science based building on Smith College's campus, with several small trees and a walk sign in the foreground.
Inside the Smith College Neilson Library study sections, looking down the glass centerfold at study rooms on lower and current floors.
Back end of the Smith College Neilson Library, a modern-style round concrete building with glass windows in the middle, and a connector to the brick half of the library.
Several barren trees in front of Paradise Pond at Smith College, in the background are several sports fields.
Smith College's Paradise Pond in the background of a Metasequoia, lamp post, and wooden accessibility rampway.
Outside of Smith College's science building, several large rocks/boulders with paved spaces between them for a crowd as well as sitting spaces, for outdoor geology and science classes.
Brick entrance of Smith College's Neilson Library, featuring two students on their way inside.
Old New England house with yellow paneling and red trim with a barren tree in back, featuring two students walking.
Rainbow pride crosswalk in Northampton, MA en route to the Smith College campus.
Iron Acorn Press featured within the Neilson Library of Smith College.
Outside of the screen on the third floor of the Nielson Library, outlooking a quad space of Smith College campus. Students are scattered around a multi-tiered amphitheater space.
I was granted the chance to learn so much from my LADO colleagues; from vernacular to attitude, to handling responsibility, and rest-to-rise. It was a brilliant opportunity, as a white person, to be educated in healthy dialogue and to hear what my liberation-seeking cohort is working on to further their mission.
I was so very energized by our conversations and by the hospitality of Smith College and our colleague Floyd. I look forward to our next meeting and also hosting LADO in 2022. Warmest appreciation for all the hard work and good work LADO is doing. Let's go make some Good Trouble!
