Alina Șerban performed “The Best Child in the World,” a one-woman play sponsored by ARCHER at the Romanian Community Center on June 21 in Chicago. Alina is Roma, she grew up poor in Bucharest, she is a woman, and yet, she is a successful actor, writer, and director. People watch her films and come to …
by Calvin Mouw 
What’s in an Ally? Engaged Philanthropy and Compassionate Partnership A Conversation with Cristiana Grigore at the Roma Peoples Project, Columbia University. Read the first part of this series on racism against Roma people here To further my understanding of what being an ally for the cause of the Roma people entails, I decided to interview Cristiana …
by Roxana Cazan 
I’m a survivor of sexual assault. And I haven’t told many people that in my life. But when we go through trauma, trauma compounds on each other. With these words, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez opened up such an important discussion on a critical topic. Trauma is all around us. Regardless of where you stand politically, trauma …
by Andreea Mile 
Part 1 6 Ways to Be a Better Ally for Roma People[1] I was born in Sibiu, Romania, in the 1980s, at a time when the socialist welfare state determined to provide “stable, if inadequate, jobs and social services to the Roma community” as Oana Oprean suggests. Part of the socialist solution was to integrate …
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