Teachings From One Student to Another.

In the essay, Transformative College Literacy of Literate Black Women Peer Counselors, Robin Wisniewski introduces us to Lauryn who is a first-semester peer counselor and a senior biology/pre-medicine major and Vania who is a third-semester peer counselor and a senior accounting major.  The essay begins with each of the two girl's definition of what being a literate Black women means.  I agree with both definitions because throughout the whole semester we have been discussing the different ways one might be considered literate.  Wisniewski started this peer counseling program which helped "provide literacy support for college students with disabilities, from low-income backgrounds, and in the first generation in their family to attend college".  In the program, math and writing tutoring was available.  Here, at Spelman, we have upperclassmen that help the first-year students in subjects like world foreign languages, english, math, biology and others.  We have the writing center and language resource center that allows us to get peer counseling from other students who have learned the same thing we are trying to understand now.  I personally like that we have these types of programs because it helps us all to become literate Black women together as peers.  Attending a predominantly Black school, like Spelman College, gives you access to many different literate Black women. I believe that having programs that involve peer counseling at colleges are very beneficial to everyone that is involved in the programs from the peer counselors to the other students.