Twenty years ago, a group of Mary Washington College students formed the Human Rights Club, which took on a wide variety of causes, from international issues like the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to local issues like the wages paid to Mary Washington staff. Ten members, via Zoom, discuss what they were able to do, what they couldn't, and what it still means to them almost two decades later.

3. Letters to a Young Activist

A podcast about the history of student activism at the University of Mary Washington, a small public liberal arts college in Virginia with a big history of fighting for change. Did you know that in 1998, the University of Mary Washington almost changed its name to Washington and Monroe University, but students blocked that? Or that the school had its own Occupy movement in 2011? Or that an organization that had its first office in a Mary Wash dorm closet has now had over 7,000 volunteers? As part of this year’s first-year experience, Good Trouble: UMW looks at the history of student activism at UMW, with interviews from students, alumni, and faculty who worked to change the university, the state, and the world.

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3. Letters to a Young Activist

3. Letters to a Young Activist