Our Stories flow through the beating heart of Mosaic’s mission in the form of narratives shared by HCCS community members. They can be short or long, personal or generalized – or even philosophical. They might delve into socially constructed identities or they may cast those identities into question. Here, in Our Stories, Mosaic hopes to cultivate a place for HCCS families to communicate experiences, express concerns, share resources and come together. If you’d like to share a piece of your own, please write to us at hccs.mosaic@gmail.com. We’d love to hear from you.
Mental Health Panel Follow-Up
Thank you to everyone who was able to join Mosaic and HCES/HCHS PTA's mental health panel on March 6th. It was an incredible event featuring mental health professionals Genavae Dixon, LMFT, Dr. Regina Miranda, and Dr. Ana Ortin Peralta, and it was expertly facilitated by [...]
Free Bystander Intervention Trainings
On March 23, I participated in a one-hour bystander training jointly led by Hollaback! and Asian Americans Advancing Justice. The content and presentation were excellent. The trainers focused on anti-Asian and xenophobic harassment and began with a very brief history of the Chinese Exclusion Act, [...]
Be Good Boy
I just had a model minority moment. As an immigrant with English as a second language (yes . . . I was one of those ESL kids), I was taught and trained to keep my head down, do my work well, be polite, curb my emotions, don’t voice [...]
Road Trip
After scratching many options, we finally made a trip to Acadia National Park in Maine last week. I asked our kids to write a journal or a story or an essay about the trip. As inevitably they whined and complained, I attempted to write something [...]
Just Another Difference
I am Nelly and I am French, White and Jewish. My husband Abdoulaye (better known for some of you as Jules) is Senegalese, Black and Muslim. We met in Switzerland and came to the U.S. “by accident” in 2006. We have been living in Washington [...]