Blending Culture and Safety at Fort Lewis

Blending Culture and Safety at Fort Lewis

Fort Lewis College pairs wellness programs and sober housing with culturally grounded support for its largely Native student body. After the death of a student at Fort Lewis College, Kendra Gallegos knew the institution’s response had to do more than make space for grief—it also had to honor the cultural traditions of the college’s largely Native student body. Fort Lewis, a public four-year college in Durango, Colo., invited an Indigenous healer…