Feven Teklu, Staff

Feven Teklu, Staff

Abstract In this interview, Feven Teklu, Senior Leadership Giving Officer in the Office of Advancement at Brown University, discusses her experiences as a woman of color and mother during the COVID-19 global pandemic and in the wake of the death of George Floyd. Teklu...
Diane Straker, Staff

Diane Straker, Staff

Abstract In this oral history captured over the course of four interviews, Diane Straker, the Pembroke Center’s administrative assistant, details her experiences living in various states along the eastern seaboard and in Saint Thomas, her daughter’s struggle with...
Afua Hassan, class of 1981 and Wanda Moore, class of 1983

Afua Hassan, class of 1981 and Wanda Moore, class of 1983

Abstract In this interview recorded during the 2018 Black Alumni Reunion, Afua Hassan and Wanda Moore discuss their time at Brown University, the effect their education had on their careers, and the importance of their friendship, which strengthened when Moore became...
Beverly Anne Calderwood, class of 1952

Beverly Anne Calderwood, class of 1952

Abstract Beverly Anne Calderwood begins this interview by explaining her parents’ self-made careers—her father’s opening of an iron foundry and her mother’s self-education. Calderwood describes her two-year experience as a Pembroke College city girl– a female day...
Elizabeth Branch Jackson, class of 1945

Elizabeth Branch Jackson, class of 1945

Abstract Elizabeth “Betty” Branch Jackson is one of Pembroke’s early students of color. During her time on campus, she was the only Black student for over two years, but this did not stop her from being extremely active during her time there and in the years...