“Stay true to who you are. As you chase your dreams, it’s very easy to be consumed in hustle culture, especially in New York, and lose sight of who you are. Never feel that you have to compromise your integrity and who you are as an individual,” McCoy said.
“As a first-generation student I had zero connections, and I wish someone had told me how important that truly is when searching for a job. When my peers who had a connection immediately got a job while I waited almost a year, it crushed me. But it’s ok, start making connections as soon as you can,” Jaylynn Cardona COM’22 said.
“After being at SC&I, I began thinking about how I could combine my interests in policy and law with journalism and continue expanding myself,” Wilson said.
During his long and distinguished career, Schement contributed to communications policy in the U.S. and helped mentor his peers with his humor and storytelling.
The prestigious and highly competitive fellowship was formed by The Faith and Politics Institute after the 2020 death of the late civil rights leader and U.S. Representative John Robert Lewis. As a fellow, Wilson will concentrate on studying the six principles of nonviolence and the history of the Civil Rights Movement.
“Lewis’s heroism was central to the Selma campaign in 1965, and he also was the one who did the most to keep Selma alive in popular memory in the last few decades, through these pilgrimages. So he really is the person with whom the campaign is most associated,” said SC&I and History Professor David Greenberg, author of “John Lewis: A Life.”
