Three seniors\u2014Kevin Xiong, Tasneem Issa, and Miranda Harris\u2014 received the college\u2019s Global Citizenship Student Award this spring in honor of their dedication to high academic performance, internationalism, multiculturalism, and community engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kevin Xiong \u201918<\/strong> A first-generation college student himself, Kevin Xiong was dedicated to expanding \u201cI think when people think of global citizenship, they think abroad. But for me, I think of it in terms of, how can we solve global issues like education accessibility in a local context? My dream is to become a school counselor in an urban area to keep practicing reciprocity and learning from students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tasneem Issa \u201918<\/strong> Tasneem Issa\u2019s campus leadership included roles on the Multifaith Council, Strategic Planning Committee, and Muslim Student Association (for which she served as president). She also worked as the Community Engagement Center\u2019s health and wellness issue-based organizer and conducted autism research\u2014a subject of personal passion given the high rates of autism in Somali children and her own Somali heritage\u2014at the University of Minnesota, where she\u2019s also been able to help share that research with the local community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy plan for the future is to continue to contribute professionally through a career in medicine and to mentor future generations, so the knowledge reaches the individuals who tend to miss out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Miranda Harris \u201918 <\/strong> In her four years at Mac, Miranda Harris conducted lab research, interviewed rural villagers in Ecuador about their experience with chikungunya virus, mentored first-year students as a writing assistant, produced a documentary about artists along the U.S.\u2013Mexico border, and collaborated with Professor Devavani Chatterjea to incorporate dance movements into biology lessons to promote better understanding of cell movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI believe global citizenship is about continually challenging borders. It\u2019s about questioning what is known. The women who came before me\u2014my grandmother and my mother especially\u2014have consistently crossed these artistic and academic borders, and I follow that line.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three seniors\u2014Kevin Xiong, Tasneem Issa, and Miranda Harris\u2014 received the college\u2019s Global Citizenship Student Award this spring<\/p>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":11314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","mediatype-articles"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"fields":{"article_type":[8],"flickr_photoset_id":"","youtube_id":"","square_thumbnail":false,"press_photos":false,"story_title":"","story_caption":"","rotations":false,"maps":false,"marker_title":"","marker_text":"","geographic_location":false,"feature_embed":"","image_options":false,"custom_link_url":"","news_icon_name":"","main_feature_story":"","custom_image":false,"custom_feature_title":"","custom_feature_caption":"","custom_markup":"","custom_markup_link":"","custom_markup_title":"","custom_markup_caption":"","byline":"","post_thumbnail_style":"default","press_downloads":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11310"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30575,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310\/revisions\/30575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Minneapolis, Minn.
American studies and educational studies majors<\/p>\n\n\n\n
access to education since he first set foot on campus\u2014working as the Community Engagement Center\u2019s college access coordinator, volunteering with the Hmong American Partnership\u2019s before-school reading program, tutoring middle schoolers in the St. Paul Public Schools, and joining Breakthrough Twin Cities as a teaching fellow, intern supervisor, and mentor to high schoolers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minneapolis, Minn.
Biology major, chemistry and data science minors, community and global health concentration<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Delray Beach, Fla.
Biology major (pre-med track),
French minor<\/p>\n\n\n\n