Awa K.

I grew up in Senegal and did all of my schooling in French, from elementary school through high school, so French is not just a subject I studied, it is the language I learned everything in. I am now a senior at City College of New York, majoring in Economics and International Relations, and I speak English, French, and Wolof fluently. My international relations coursework keeps me close to world history, which I enjoy teaching as a story of connected events instead of a list of dates to memoriz…