Ten Hotchkiss students – Richard Lu, Zayda Gordon, Phoenix  Feng, Aaliyah Wang, Kiera Dwan, Allah-U-Abha Rodrigues, Annie Dong, Ophelia Cham, Jacquo Pierre, and Emily Grimm (not pictured) – presented their work, describing their inspiration, research, process, and final pieces, during the Troutbeck Symposium on May 1st. Their work was displayed in the Troutbeck Gallery throughout the three-day event.

About the Troutbeck Symposium

The Troutbeck Symposium is a student-led historical educational forum, now in its second year at Troutbeck in Amenia, New York. Middle and high school students from thirteen regional public and private schools listen, present, and discuss the findings of their year-long research projects uncovering the under-told histories of BIPOC communities nearby and nationally. With distinguished guests – this year featured Dr. Hassan Kwame Jeffries and Dr. Christina Proenza-Coles – students gather at Troutbeck to learn in a safe space and experience the power of place thanks to Troutbeck's unique history as a gathering place for great minds — including John Burroughs, Thurgood Marshall, Sinclair Lewis, Lewis Mumford, Teddy Roosevelt, Zora Neale Hurston, and W.E.B. Du Bois — for hundreds of years.