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“No one tells their own story better than themselves,” said Gabriel R. Sorondo Guirola ’23, who is part of a Public Humanities Collaborative project at Trinity that archives the stories of Latinx people in Hartford. He spoke recently about his work during a National Humanities Alliance panel discussion.

Music, dance, and a ‘Big Bang’ community drumming encounter will be among the highlights of Trinity’s Samba Fest on Saturday, April 23, on the Jacobs Life Sciences Center Quad.

Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney recently announced the appointment of Matthew S. Hyde as the college’s next dean of admissions and financial aid. His appointment will begin on July 1, 2022.

Widener Gallery will present a one-person exhibition of recent paintings by Trinity College Studio Arts Program Director and Professor of Fine Arts Joseph Byrne, April 5 through May 6, with a gallery talk on May 3.

The 16th annual Trinity International Hip Hop Festival comes to Trinity College March 31 through April 3, 2022, featuring an extensive lineup of lectures, workshops, panel discussions, and film screenings.

Medievalist and Professor of English Sheila Fisher’s April 25 talk, “Within Opposing Cells: Questions of Women, Confinement, and Self-Expression,” is this year’s Shirley G. Wassong Memorial Lecture in European and American Art, Culture, and History.

The Everett and Joanne Elting Fund for Human Rights and Global Citizenship will create experiential learning opportunities across the curriculum and advance Trinity College’s leadership in human rights education.

With Regular Decision admissions letters sent to future Bantams, Trinity College is eager to welcome members of the Class of 2026 to campus for special events over the next several months. Trinity received 6,198 applications this year, marking a five-year high for the college, and admitted 257 students through two rounds of Early Decision.

Coming to Trinity as a first-year student from Kabul, Afghanistan, Hanifa Darwish ’22 found support at the college’s International House, which promotes the appreciation of diversity on campus. “The iHouse helps international students adapt to life at Trinity and introduces all students to international cultures through events, discussions, and trips,” she says.

Caleb Prescott ’22 and Renita Washington ’22 had the unique and moving experience of touring the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture with the Floyd and King families and sharing an intimate conversation with them over dinner.