My name is Joanna Williams.
I'm the Director of Education and Advocacy at the Kino Border Initiative,
and I graduated in 2013.
Right now, I work at the Kino Border Initiative, which is a
bi-national Jesuit organization on the U.S.-Mexico border.
And we receive primarily recently deported Mexican immigrants
as well as Central Americans in transit.
My role within that is the U.S.-based education and advocacy.
For education, I do a lot of work with 
Jesuit schools, parishes, and universities,
trying to help them understand the humanity of immigration.
I think there's a few, probably three different ways
in which SFS has been transformative for me.
One piece was just the understanding of intercultural communication
and the dynamics of power and injustice and inequality,
and how to enter into that as a white American,
how to be sensitive to my privilege.
What students really need to be doing is
understanding the people that this affects,
dedicating themselves to not just studying
international economics,
but also seeing who are the people who are affected
by globalization,
and getting to know them as friends, as neighbors,
as community members, and bridging that gap
because that's what will lead to more sustainable work in the future.
SFS equips people with skills,
but it's not a pre-professional program
in the sense that this is your one track to success.
This university is about more than just success.
It's about more than just getting a job and
being powerful or
even making a difference.
That deeper sense of
what does it mean to live in solidarity with the world,
what does it mean to understand the spiritual dimension of what we do.
The fact that we're able to infiltrate so many different areas
with that appreciation is incredible to me.
