Former Associate Dean Christopher Sewell ’05 writes that the College does not support staff with terminal degrees who wish to do research or academic work, leading to disproportionately high turnover among Black and Brown staff members.

In the third Black History Month column, Dean Christopher Sewell '05 shares how growing up, he came to terms with his identities as Black, queer, and gifted, and how those experiences informed his quest to make Black people feel they belong at the College.