Bryn Mawr College

The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program, established 20 years ago with Bryn Mawr as one of the Mellon Foundation's original partners, offers support to "minority students, and others with a demonstrated commitment to eradicating racial disparities, who will pursue Ph.D.s in core fields in the arts and sciences."

V-Day, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, is an international effort to raise awareness of and resist violence against women. The movement was founded by playwright Eve Ensler, who grants free licenses for benefit performances of her award-winning play The Vagina Monologues to hundreds of college and community groups around the world.

"It's a dramatic treatment of some very important issues that makes them much more immediate and real than reading statistics in a UN report," Walker says.

Host Marty-Moss Coane interviewed Sacerio-Gari and Yale University Professor of History and Religious Studies Carlos Eire, also a Cuban-born American, about the prospect of a change in Cuba and in U.S.-Cuba relations in the wake of Fidel Castro's resignation. Streaming audio of the interview is available on the WHYY Web site.