Ampersand

Astrid Escobar wants to solve the problems that affected her childhood experiences in the U.S. public education system.

The decade that just ended, the 2010s, was the warmest experienced by the planet since people started collecting widespread, instrumental temperature data almost 200 years ago.

Bernard Narokobi, who helped compose Papua New Guinea’s constitution, trusted UVA anthropologist Lise Dobrin with a manuscript telling the history of his village – a unique resource that previously existed only as a Word document.

Students hone their grammatical and writing skills while reading and discussing works by authors who have used writing as a tool for social justice and change.