New and ongoing stressors, layer upon layer

Nina Hernandez Beithon is the diversity liaison counselor in Student Counseling Services, which, along with Boynton Mental Health, provides clinical counseling on the Twin Cities campus. As such, she’s working primarily with students facing an element of race-based trauma—some of it triggered by the killing of George Floyd last May and the uprisings that followed. The way that Beithon sees it, students in marginalized communities have faced growing layers of challenges and trauma, beginning with the pandemic. Read the full article here.