June 3, 2020
Pedro Falci, Associate Director, was quoted in The Daily Free Press article “BU community responds to recent race-related tension.” Pedro discussed the importance of programs like Coffee & Conversation that give students space to process emotions in response to tragedy and crisis:
Pedro Falci, associate director for the HTC, served as the moderator for Monday’s two-and-a-half-hour session. He said there were about 300 student participants throughout the span of the conversation, which opened with Falci asking students how they were feeling.
“Sometimes at the University, we’re so academic-minded,” Falci said. “I think it was important to give the students specifically the prompt of talking about emotions.”
In addition to hosting this special edition of Coffee & Conversation, the Howard Thurman Center issued our own response to the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor. Read our full statement here and The Daily Free Press article here.