Associate Director Kia Lor of the Greenfield Intercultural Center supports students at Penn while navigating multiple cultures Kia Lor, a first-generation Hmong American, navigates interculturalism as the new associate director of Greenfield Intercultural Center.
Kia Lor’s first day of work was the first day of shutdown on March 16, 2020. The new associate director of the Greenfield Intercultural Center (GIC) wasn’t new to campus however. Lor earned her master’s degree from the Graduate School of Education in 2016, specializing in intercultural communication. A high-achieving first-generation, low-income (FGLI) student, she had recently realized that she could make a career out of intercultural work, which she had done her entire life as a first-generation immigrant.
Hershey profits benefit a boarding school that spends lavishly on its low-income students. But that investment comes with strings attached leaving some students behind and others mired in debt.
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HERSHEY, Pa. When Dayshawn Carroll graduated from the Milton Hershey School in 2011, his goal of college seemed firmly within his grasp. He had lived for six years at the nation’s wealthiest private school, his days tightly scheduled around studying, sports and chores. The school’s manicured campus, about 15 miles from the impoverished Harrisburg neighborhood where he had grown up, was a world apart “like Hogwarts,” he said, referring to the boarding school in the Harry Potter novels.
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