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MCC Global Faces Exhibit Featured on Time Warner News


As the refugee rhetoric debate rages, an exhibit created through the collaborative efforts of MCC students provides a retrospective beyond the politics or the grim statistics. MCC’s Global Faces and Human Displacement Across the Globe exhibit individualizes a growing world crisis – a crisis that many of MCC’s English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) students have lived through.

Coordinated by Audra Dion, assistant director of Global Education and International Services, the project involved MCC students in three classes: a writing class (Holly Wheeler), a transitional studies class (Kate Leite) and a photography class (Jasna Bogdanovska). The assignment: to tell the stories of the immigrant and refugee students in transitional studies through words and images. The hope: that significant lessons would be learned in this cross-cultural exchange between MCC’s refugee and domestic students by giving a human face to the statistics, graphics and charts from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) report.

The resulting exhibit is a powerful one. The participating students say that their involvement in its creation was an extremely enlightening experience – one they will not soon forget.


Last Tuesday, Time Warner Cable News featured this collaborative MCC project.
https://www.twcnews.com/nys/rochester/news/2015/11/24/refugee-struggles-showcased-at-mcc-student-display.html

Janet Ekis
Marketing and Community Relations
11/30/2015