Berea College

William Woelki ’22 is rewriting what research can look like for youth in foster care. Read about his journey from a skeptical high schooler to a doctoral researcher and TEDx speaker, guided by his own lived experience and the support he found at Berea.

🔗: https://magazine.berea.edu/alumni-impact/driven-by-curiosity/

Berea Kids Eat will offer another year of robust summer programming and healthy meal opportunities for Berea’s school-aged children, beginning in June.

Through its Berea Kids Eat program, Grow Appalachia – a strategic initiative of Berea College – will offer Multi-Day Meals through the SUN Meals Summer Feeding Program. Berea Kids Eat will offer pickup at Berea Community School (3 Pirate Parkway) for families as a drive-thru service to access free meal boxes for youth ages 18 and under.

🔗 Learn More: https://www.berea.edu/mountaineer-news/news/berea-kids-eat-offering-robust-summer-meals-for-berea-children

Traveling to more than 85 places in the world, Elijah Hicks ’23 and Moria Wilbur ’21 chose to return to Slade, Kentucky, to cultivate the land. Today, they run the Forest Forager Farm, giving back to their community.

"Berea didn’t give me a clear path in life, but it gave me the chance to grow, explore different disciplines, and receive a free education, which I’m really grateful for." - Elijah Hicks ’23

🔗 Read More from the Berea College Magazine: https://magazine.berea.edu/berea-in-the-community/coming-back-to-my-favorite-place/
📷: Kalilah Hicks '27

Berea College’s bell hooks center and bell hooks Institute are excited to share that hooks’ Communion is on the New York Times Best Seller list for the first time! All About Love has also returned to the NYT’s Best Seller list!

A special thanks to social media efforts to up sales of bell hooks’ Communion ( .studio and others)!