In the fall of 2017, Hoda Shalash joined the ranks of powerful women in her family to pursue a UK degree.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 11, 2021) — Words matter — we’ve heard this time and time again. As human beings, we use words to create labels — it’s our way of understanding people and things.
We often apply labels to those we barely know, and the same is done to us. For good or bad, these assumptions influence our identity.
Just ask Hoda Shalash — she is no stranger to labels.
“I’m a first-generation Palestinian-American Muslim woman,” she said. “Growing up as a minority kid in a majority white city and country, I very quickly learned the importance of community and the power that lies within it.”