PhD Student
Cornell University
Department of Communication
In the Media
Cornell Chronicle feature and interview:
"Art exhibition sheds light on invisible aspects of disability"
A snippet from the article's opening:
Ria Gualano knows something about invisibility. Being multiracial and living with an unseen chronic illness, she’s felt at times there were large swaths of her life few people knew or understood.
But one thing that helps is expressing herself through art.
Now Gualano, a doctoral student in communication, is giving others with disabilities in the Cornell community a chance to express unseen aspects of their own identities in an upcoming arts exhibition. “Invisible Aspects of Disability and Neurodiversity” opens April 25 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. and runs through May 3 in the Department of Communication, on the fourth floor of Mann Library.
Continue reading at:
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/04/art-exhibition-sheds-light-invisible-aspects-disability
2024 Cornell Multicultural Academic Council (MAC) Public Keynote - Quote
A section from the article:
Helen Stec, a doctoral student in neurobiology and MAC Peer Mentoring Program co-chair, appreciated how Griffin addressed the many kinds of identity-based mentorship and the ways in which they can shape the future of mentoring.
This was an important takeaway for Ria Gualano, a doctoral student in communication and MAC Peer Mentoring Program co-chair, too. The holistic approach to getting to know a mentee and what they need from the relationship will be useful to bring back to those involved in the program, she said.
“It’ll be helpful for us to disseminate this information to our organization, because there are a lot of really talented, committed mentors who want to cultivate the best mentoring relationship possible with the students they’re working with,” Gualano said. “I appreciated being in the room and getting to experience this.”
Read more at:
https://gradschool.cornell.edu/announcements/griffin-acknowledge-identity-for-stronger-mentoring-relationships/