Susan Akram, director of the International Human Rights Clinic at the Boston University School of Law, said she saw generational trauma firsthand. Akram started teaching at BU in 1993, where she now supervises students representing international non-governmental organizations at the International Human Rights Clinic, IHRC.

Race and ethnicity force us to split who we are into separate pieces — to define ourselves through arbitrarily crafted methods built by changes in society over time.