Category: Alumni Stories

  • A Conversation and Update from Brian Labra Vergara

    A Conversation and Update from Brian Labra Vergara

    [RL] Where are you now?  [BL] In a period of transition. Actually, I’m on a bus in New York, but that’s neither here nor there.  For some background, my name is Brian Labra Vergara, a first-gen Colorado Native who went through the REDI Lab program and graduated Colorado Academy to attend Skidmore College in Saratoga…

  • “Why should I believe in my own ideas?” by Avery Lin

    “Why should I believe in my own ideas?” by Avery Lin

    “Why should I believe in my own ideas?” This was one of the first questions I asked myself when I joined the REDI Lab in 2019. Five years later, I am still asking the same question every day. As a senior in college this year majoring in philosophy, I grapple daily with thinkers whose ideas…