Alumni Stories

Tavares Ingram — Class of 2014

As an Alumni of Color, I stand in solidarity and love with the students of DePauw University who are fighting for equality and safety. Some institutional changes must be made to ensure ALL students at DePauw are safe and welcomed, especially students of color. #MyBlackIsGold

Anonymous — Class of 2017

Especially this past week, there has been an attack against non-white bodies on our campus. Every student deserves to have a community where they feel welcomed and supported completely. While the university strives to make the entire campus that place, AAAS will continue to be this…

Ose Jackson — Class of 2015

This donation is for my community. May AAAS continue to do great work and thrive at this institution. DePauw cannot silence its Black students and alumni of color, despite their negligence. Nor can they have my money. But I will certainly give to the organization/house that…

Tendai Hinds — Class of 2018

The AAAS house is important for black students to come together and organize, plan, and be there for each other.

We need the house so that the students have a safe space that they can go too to feel comfortable and welcomed on a campus and a community that constantly doesn’t welcome or support our identities.

Emily Yunker — Class of 2005

I was ignorant of the hate happening at DePauw while I was there and since. I knew there were problems — a collection of communities, a culture of judgment — but I assumed that was just the college reality. I recognize my privilege. I am ashamed of how naive I have been and am…

Amy Ratcliffe — Class of 1990

I am a white DePauw alum with 150 year family history at DePauw. As Quakers in Evansville, my grandparents taught me that our family roots went back to the Mayflower, that our history included the underground railroad, and that DePauw was our university. These are the roots of…

Anonymous — Class of 2017

I’m doing this because students of color deserve better than this, they deserve justice that the university is not giving them.

Dione Gordon — Class of 2015

Make DePauw a place were all black and brown bodies can feel safe. People of Color deserve the same love and respect.

Leann Burke — Class of 2015

Race relations took center stage at DePauw during my junior and senior years. I remember covering the events for The DePauw, first as a copy editor my junior year, then as editor-in-chief in the first semester of my senior year, and finally as a writer in my final semester at…

Ariel Cheatham — Class of 2016

I am writing this letter to express the impact the Association of African American Student’s (AAAS) house had on my DePauw experience. I arrived on DePauw’s campus in August 2012, and I was not excited about being away from home or in an unfamiliar town. After my family…