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Robin Happel is an honors student at Fordham University. She is originally from Jonesborough, Tennessee, and is a member of several Appalachian writing and activist groups, such as the North Carolina Folklore Society and the NAACP.

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Robin Happel
Fordham University's student graduation speaker was motivated by her faith to call for “zero emissions, zero excuses and zero time to waste.”
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Arts & CulturePoetry
Robin Happel
My god is patient. She curls like ivy around a crumbling world,/ And howls in the stillness of the night, the silent spaces no ritual can fill.