“Believe in yourself and never give up. It took me a long time to get to where I am, and I have no intention of settling. I have a plan and am looking forward to seeing where my ambition will take me,” said Daniela Vega MCM ‘24, JMS ’23.
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.
Nearly two dozen SC&I instructors were thanked and celebrated by Rutgers University-New Brunswick students during the January event hosted by TIIP.
“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.”
Benitez said she discovered her interest in journalism as a teenager, and then trained for it at Rutgers.
