Recollections of Rose Albert '13

Rose Albert, class of 2013 and later Associate Director of the Office of Multicultural Programs and Retention, reminisces about her time as a student and a staff member at Salve. She recalls the role Sister Leona Misto and Pam Heroux played in her leaving Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, flying to New York, and driving overnight to Salve so that she would be able to enroll before the cutoff. She speaks of feeling isolated after the trauma of the earthquake, and of friends and staff members who opened their offices to her. She also discusses the community she found with other international students, and of experiencing the life of Salve Regina's mission and racism at the same time. She talks about the formation of the Multicultural Students Office and hiring of Sami Nassim, and of her return to Salve in 2018. She talks about what changed in her absence, and what didn't, and the formation of the Black Student Union in 2016, and the formation of the Inclusive Reading Club, which she started with the library in 2018, and is still running at the time of the interview in 2025.