By: Jaden Cloobeck TableTalk Penn and the Polybian Society–a philosophical discussion branch of the Penn Government and Politics Association (GPA)–joined forces to relax on the comfy living room couches and chairs of the Polybian House! …

By: Kate Castle On the first day of my junior year of high school, a hot, sweaty day full of uncertain anxieties, my English elective class, Protest Literature, took the Myers Briggs Personality Test. …

A Countdown to 2019 TableTalk Global has made great strides in 2018 and with 2019 on the horizon, we feel ready to take on the new year with new goals in mind. In taking a look back on the year 2018, we feel gratitude towards those who have believed in…

By: Ellie Perlmutter Imagine me, a clueless 15 year old girl in her room, trying to figure out what to do for her first Table Talk event. She’s looking for some good questions for a nice conversation with her fellow classmates, teens, and teachers; she’s scrolling through questions made by…

By: Anna Stern Reflections After Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting When I was a kid, I wanted to go to a non-Jewish school. I was tired of being around like-minded individuals day after day, year after year. I wanted diversity. I wanted to be around people who were different than me. I was more observant than my…

By: Hannah Green This summer, I went on a ten-day trip to Israel and the Palestinian Territories with Santa Barbara Hillel on a program called Fact Finders. The concept behind the trip was to take a diverse group of students involved in various leadership positions on campus and provide them…

By: Hannah Lottenberg It’s okay to not be okay. That’s a sentence that one year ago, I wouldn’t have believed. Before getting involved in TableTalk, I lived my life on the surface, never really confronting my truest identity and self. Basically, I came to Penn as a positive, straight, happy…

By: Claire Boehm On a breathtakingly luminous spring day I was walking out of the library when I noticed a couch in the middle of the brick pathway. I had just finished my hardest class of the day, I had missed breakfast, and was mentally and physically exhausted. I noticed…

TableTalk is a mission and a movement that has been on the Holy Hill since the mid-winter of my first year here at Episcopal. Ask any student you see in the Dining Hall, on the way to the Center, or hanging out on Strip, and they will tell you the…