A 1970s era black man with a mustache and cool pointy shirt collar gestures while speaking.

Heritage: The Peace Studies Origin Story

How Civil Rights legend Bernard LaFayette, Jr. helped make justice a Gustavus core value.

Five faculty and staff first-generation college students sit together on an orange couch

The Firsts That Came Before

These Five Gustavus faculty and staff know first hand what it’s like.

“I will not be the last.”

Pilar Gimenez Stier ’96 on her journey from teen immigrant to Minnesota’s First Latina Police Chief.