By SEED Associate Director Gail Cruise-Roberson and SEED Summer Staff Member Willa Cofield.

A key SEED practice is using personal stories to illuminate systems of inequality and oppression. I was reminded of that this past week as my family celebrated Passover, the Jewish holiday in which we remember gaining our freedom from slavery in Egypt — and when we encourage ourselves to keep working for the freedom of all people even today.

Bruce Bowers, who became a SEED leader in 1993, wrote recently on his blog Tremphil about his 31 years of teaching and how SEED made a difference.