No one has ever boarded three flights and traveled 1,500 miles from another country to be part of Illinois State’s Human Library, but Amanda Coleman has been through more. The soft-spoken woman from Nova Scotia, Canada, wanted to tell her story, which was hard to listen to. At 18 months old, she was blinded in
Unit: Human Library
‘Books’ share their life story at ISU’s first Human Library
During the Human Library pilot program, around 50 different “books” (real people who have experienced prejudices or discrimination in their life) met with 500 first-year Illinois State students.