but first, a personal note in honor of my alma mater about finding light in darkness
we were so close to being out of the woods with 2025. this year will forever be bookended by traumatic tragedies in my two homes: the LA fires on january 8 and the mass shooting at brown university on december 13—the day before the anniversary of sandy hook. two brown students who survived this shooting already survived shootings at their high schools. they chose brown for college because of its infectious environment of security, community, and intimacy. they thought it would be statistically impossible for them to experience another school shooting…
