Krista Stapleford

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Senior Column | Krista Stapleford '21: On painful beginnings and surprising self-acceptance

By Krista Stapleford | April 28

When I first arrived on Brown’s campus the day of first-year move-in, I wasn’t all that different from any of my peers chaotically flooding the University gates. Like many of those around me, there was a large pit in the bottom of my stomach, which lodged itself there to remind me of my fear that ...

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Stapleford '21: Make spring break dining more accessible

By Krista Stapleford | April 15

When the University established need-blind admissions policies in 2002 and then in December 2017 announced the elimination of loans from undergraduate financial aid packages, it joined many of its peer institutions in making a profound statement to the world that a student’s ability to pay should ...

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Stapleford '21: Against the disability identity center

By Krista Stapleford | March 20

On March 12, 1990, over 60 physically disabled individuals threw themselves out of their wheelchairs, abandoned their crutches and left their walkers behind, dragging themselves up the 78 steps of the capitol building in Washington, D.C., to protest the delay of the long-awaited passage of the Americans ...

Senior Column | Krista Stapleford '21: On painful beginnings and surprising self-acceptance

Stapleford '21: Make spring break dining more accessible

Stapleford '21: Against the disability identity center

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