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When you give to Calvin,
- "Something clicks" within a student.
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A vision for Shalom is carried out in every aspect of an alumna’s work.
A community grows and is strengthened.
When Nateisha DeCruz Laloo came to Calvin she was an agnostic, but while listening to a lecture on St. Augustine in a religion class, she had a conversion experience. “Something clicked,” she said, “and I realized that I had been living my life with me in the middle, and life wasn’t about me.”
While triggered in a classroom, Laloo’s newfound faith was nurtured through a multitude of other experiences on campus. “The biggest thing for me at Calvin was growing spiritually,” she said. “The more I got involved, the more I talked to professors and peers, I realized that there was more to what you believe than the intellectual.”
Calvin vice president for student life Shirley Hoogstra said providing places for that sort of learning — what she calls “the continued conversations” — is critical to student development. Laloo, who most recently worked in Asia, rescuing women and girls out of human trafficking, would agree: “Calvin helped me to build a foundation in the Lord,” she said, “and understand the importance that community brings to that.”
Nateisha DeCruz Laloo '05
Shillong, Meghalaya, India
Communications Arts & Sciences
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Political Science
International Justice Mission