For some students on Penn’s campus—not all students’ physical disabilities are easily discernible—the conspicuousness of a physical disability is juxtaposed with the invisible challenges they face, large or small.
Somewhere on campus, a man calls a female student a terrorist from his car window, a group of students passionately argue the logic behind public bans on hijabs and a TA refuses to give a student her exam until she removes her headscarf.
In the fall of her senior year at Penn, Jess King (C’15) asked herself if education was the most valuable thing she could do with her diploma.
“Hell yeah, it is” she said.