Lament: passionate expression of grief, regret, disappointment and sorrow
-What adversity have you faced this year?
-What have you worked to overcome?
-What have you learned from this adversity?

Hope: a feeling of expectation, anticipation and desire for a certain thing to happen
-What is one of your achievements?
-What are you looking forward to for the coming year (hope, vision, dreams, plans)?
-How can 91¶ÌÊÓƵ support you now and in the future?

These groups/people are planning to share statements of lament and hope:

Eastern Mennonite Seminary – Courtney Joyner
Earthkeepers – Andrea Troyer
Deanvost Team – Tara Kishbaugh
Sustainable Food Initiative (SFI) – Felicity Zimmerman
Executive Leadership Team – Jackie Font-Guzman
Safe Space – Hannah Beck and Ani Beitzel
Faculty Senate – Mark Metzler Sawin
Eastern Mennonite Student Women’s Association (EMSWA) – Molly Piwonka
Young Democrats – Meredith Lehman

Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán (Jackie) serves as the inaugural executive director of diversity, equity, and inclusion, president’s office. She is also a tenured professor in the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding.

Jackie has actively participated in the field of conflict and peacebuilding studies through national and international conferences/workshops and she has conducted a wide variety of trainings and seminars in the field, throughout the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, and Latin America. As part of her international practice and experience, she has provided mediation, facilitation, and training services to organizations including the World Health Organization, U.S. Postal Service, Judicial Academy of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court, Spain Supreme Court Judicial Council for Continuous Education for Judges, Venezuela Supreme Court, Johnson & Johnson, and the Nebraska Bar Association.