Anahi Aken

Anahi Aken

Anahi Aken (’23, WEST & Sociology) (Ah Nah E // Ai Khen) She / Her / Hers

Spring 2022, Professor Ferber taught “Racial Storytelling” (WEST/SOC 4480), which offers students a unique travel course. WEST/SOC double major, Anahi Aken, reflects upon this experience:

For this course, we travelled to Montgomery, Alabama. Taking a travel course was an immersive experience, far different than any class I have ever taken. To anyone considering taking a travel course at UCCS, I urge you strongly to enroll. Racial Storytelling is a class that has impacted my academic career greatly. As a WEST major, I cannot recommend taking it enough!

Racial storytelling is a course that challenges students to embrace a radical imagination where we reimagine the world- not as it currently is but as what it has the potential to become. This is a class dedicated to examining narratives of racism & resistance, how we tell them, and what we don’t tell about that history. By excavating stories from and about those who’ve been silenced and previously unheard, I gained invaluable knowledge about systems that hold such progress back."

In the Spring, Dr. Ferber will be offering another travel course, The Intersections of Privilege (WEST/SOC 4470). This class will travel to Mesa, AZ to attend the 24th Annual White Privilege Conference, April 12-15, another unique experience! Contact Dr. Ferber if you have any questions at aferber@uccs.edu