In light of Brown’s transition to online learning, the U-FLi Center will be sharing narratives from the Class of 2020. We aim to affirm and honor graduating students’ time at Brown. Read about Leslie Benavides below:

Advice you’d give your first-year self?

I wish I could hug my first-year self. I’d tell her she’s a bad bitch. She is more than enough, and like spring, she’ll bloom– with or without Brown.