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Alumni Profiles Calvin seeks to equip students to think deeply, act justly, and live wholeheartedly as Christ’s agents of renewal in the world. These stories demonstrate how our alumni are living out that mission. Cheri Ackerman Jaylyn Gough is the hasfounder been of Native Women’s Wilderness, researching a new technology. which strives It to create could lead a platform to a diagnostic for native platform, women to use their which couldvoices test ato person speak for out againstsingle every injustices, virus,toincluding bring awareness the to indigenousevery coronavirus, people time andthey landgot rights, and to sick and serve could as eventually adventure-seeking be usedrole models for broad forpublic-health native girls. efforts. CalvinStaal Janet professor and Katelyn of nursing Egnatuk Katie launchedserves Kunnen one ofwith West Samaritan’s Michigan’s first nature-based Purse and waspreschools, recently deployed a movement that is rapidly gaining momentum across the country. Read more profiles online calvin.edu/spark
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