News at St. Catherine's
Speaker Inspires Students to be Enough
Denise Soler Cox spoke at St. Catherine's earlier this week. She works to help individuals, organizations and companies understand the experience of culture and identity.
Filmmaker Denise Soler Cox spoke with students in the Middle School and Upper School on Tuesday about her struggles with her own identity.
She started her presentation by showing the short film “Being Enye” was shown. Cox, who started Project Enye, then shared her story about being born in the Bronx to a Puerto Rican family and how she always felt torn between two worlds. She explained how as a child and even into her adult years she never felt Latina enough or white enough. People would make fun of her call her names and how she started to really wrap her head around the idea of being enough and that she was enough - she was Latina enough and American enough.
Cox assured the girls they were likely not alone on their feelings of belonging or not belonging and to look at others around them.
Located in the heart of Richmond, Virginia, St. Catherine’s School is a private, all-girls pre-K, kindergarten, elementary, middle and high school. We provide a well-rounded educational experience for girls from communities across Richmond, Chesterfield, Henrico and all of central Virginia. St.Catherine’s all-girls educational experience is rooted in more than a century of history and tradition. From our revolutionary past to our dynamic present, St. Catherine’s has always focused on preparing students for a boundless future.
