“I remember after a busy day of DivEx programming, I sat on the steps of Swartz Hall, feeling the sun on skin and just hearing this whisper from the Divine saying, ‘You belong here; here is a place that you will grow and get to know me better.’ And so I was just like, ‘Okay. I’m applying to Harvard Divinity School. This will be a place that will further my aspirations to do healing justice work.'” As the daughter of a United Methodist preacher and Peruvian-Bolivian immigrant, Anna Del Castillo, MDiv ’21, grew up in a cultural fusion in Mississippi. Her spiritually rich upbringing, she says, set her trajectory toward continued change and activism.

Related Keywords

Peru , Bolivia , Mississippi , United States , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , United Kingdom , Diane Moore , Melissa Bartholomew , Swartz Hall , Fannie Lou Hamer , Student Organizing Committee , Harvard Divinity School , Anna Del Castillo , With Climate Justice Week , Brings Hope Into Grief , Harvard Divinity , United Methodist , Del Castillo , Fannie Lou , Professor Diane Moore , Faculty Director , Public Life , Associate Dean , Professor Moore , Justice Week , Residence Terry Tempest Williams , Climate Justice Week ,