Family visit & and Boxes/Walls

This past weekend Ryan’s parents (Larry & Linda Cohenour) came to visit us for the Easter weekend. We had a fun visit—on Saturday we walked down town to visit the university bookstore and then dropped by to volunteer at Boxes & Walls—which is a diversity initiative at Iowa, event held yesterday—April 15th. The programming team that coordinated the event did an exceptional job and yesterday hundreds of students, faculty and staff at Iowa experienced several rooms of information on hate crimes, socioeconomic status and religion. Here the picture about veterans is one example of the information that was provided.



Participants experienced all 10 rooms and then had some time to process what they learned and experienced with a trained facilitator. Ryan was an actor in the event last night and I was a greeter—good times!

Here is a picture of Ryan and his dad trying to figure out the sewing machine for Kate who was making some costumes for the event.


Linda and me after we posted this socioeconomic information—we used a lot of tape!