Searching for Tolerance: A Closer Look at IWU Hillel

This poster presentation demonstrates how I used participant observation, interviewing, and collaborative visual ethnographic methods to gain insight into what it is like to be a Jewish student at Illinois Wesleyan University. This poster highlights three pertinent issues that members of IWU Hillel want to convey: their lack of a sacred space of their own on campus, the various ways Jewish identity can be experienced and expressed, and how non-Jewish students relate to their Jewish identity and towards Judaism in general. This presentation allows members of IWU Hillel to have their voices heard and to further educate other students at IWU about their beliefs with the hope of bringing a greater degree of religious tolerance to campus

Snapped into Focus: Addressing the Challenges Faced by Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in the United States

Utilizing collaborative research methods and visual media, this poster provides an insider\u27s perspective of the experience of someone who has lived as an undocumented immigrant in the United States. Examined through the lens of Jennifer Carrillo, who immigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 10, this research focuses on the difficult process of immigration and the consequences for those who are unable to become legal residents. This poster also explores the moral responsibility felt by immigrants who have successfully navigated the immigration system to actively try to improve the status of undocumented immigrants in the United States