ABSTRACT
I am a professor of education at a small, rural, liberal arts college in the U.S. Upper Midwest. My campus community is friendly and warm, and I feel lucky to be here. Before this, I was a K-12 Special Education teacher in a large, urban school district that included a richly diverse group of students and staff. My graduate studies likewise were done on a large campus where diversity, in all its forms, was not only something I expected, but from which I took happy comfort. I belonged there.
