I grew up in a real small town. My class had 72 students. Living in a small town, where there wasn’t open dialogue and strong support for the LGBTQIA+ community, I didn’t always feel accepted for who I was. Photos courtesy of Brandon Rounds Growing up, I was very close with my stepsister. She had …
My maiden name is Kennedy. Growing up in the 1960s as a Jewish Kennedy was a story. Classmates asked me, ‘Oh, do you live in the White House?’ And then with the assassinations, everyone wanted to know how I got the name Kennedy. Photo by Gary Porter My dad’s last name was Ungar, which is …
I grew up in Milwaukee’s Jewish community and attended a suburban public school. There were no Holocaust survivors in my immediate family, but I was aware many belonged to my synagogue. Photos by Gary Porter From an early age, my parents and grandparents taught my siblings and me to be proud of our Jewish identity …
I am shy and hesitant to speak publicly, but I know I need to do it to reach people, to share my experience during the Holocaust. I got involved with the Holocaust Education Resource Center (HERC) because I have a story to tell. I was born in 1937 in Karlsruhe, Germany, and I lived in …
UW-Whitewater started its adaptive sports program in 1973, invested in building a wheelchair basketball program, and has been dominant in the sport ever since. At the 2021 Tokyo Paralympics, five of the athletes on the U.S. gold medal-winning men’s wheelchair basketball team were UW-Whitewater alumni. The assistant coach for the Paralympic team is the coach …
“I’ve always wanted to give back to this sport.” Read More »
I don’t really know how old I am. I’ve been in the United States since 1983, and I think I was probably thirteen when I got here. I came from Cambodia in the midst of the Vietnam War. Photo from Colleen Bies Ever since I was little, we were running. I was born into this …
The Wisconsin Historical Society Press published ‘Hope Is the Thing: Wisconsinites on Perseverance in a Pandemic’. In this series, we feature five writers who share their experiences as they explore hope in the era of Covid. Jamie Vue contributed an essay to the book. Being from a family of refugees grounds me and is where …
UW-Whitewater started its adaptive sports program in 1973, invested in building a wheelchair basketball program, and has been dominant in the sport ever since. At the 2021 Tokyo Paralympics, five of the athletes on the U.S. gold medal-winning men’s wheelchair basketball team were UW-Whitewater alumni. The assistant coach for the Paralympic team is the coach …
“Playing basketball was a really good thing for me.” Read More »
UW-Whitewater started its adaptive sports program in 1973, invested in building a wheelchair basketball program, and has been dominant in the sport ever since. At the 2021 Tokyo Paralympics, five of the athletes on the U.S. gold medal-winning men’s wheelchair basketball team were UW-Whitewater alumni. The assistant coach for the Paralympic team is the coach …
“I’m a three-time Paralympian and three-time medalist.” Read More »
UW-Whitewater started its adaptive sports program in 1973, invested in building a wheelchair basketball program, and has been dominant in the sport ever since. At the 2021 Tokyo Paralympics, five of the athletes on the U.S. gold medal-winning men’s wheelchair basketball team were UW-Whitewater alumni. The assistant coach for the Paralympic team was the coach …
“To know I could compete in a wheelchair was huge.” Read More »
Every day, people are released from prison and return to communities across the state to rebuild their lives. Wisconsin has an incarceration rate of 676 per 100,000 people and, notably, imprisons Black men at a higher rate than any other state in America. The barriers people face when they are released can be overwhelming and are considered partially responsible …
“My mom came home in 2001 and that’s when my healing started.” Read More »
I have lived in La Crosse since I was nine. I was born in a refugee camp in Thailand, and I lived there until my family came to America. Photo courtesy of Xong Xiong My main memory of that place was that I was free. Even though I was confined to the one-mile radius of …
“Concern for a just and equitable world is a driving force for me.” Read More »
