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MARVIN CARTER EdS '16
Studied marriage and family therapy
Residence director
The Dear World project is deceptively simple: Write a heartfelt message on your fists, clavicle,
cheek, or most tender skin, and pose for a photograph. "We wanted folks to have conversations
about issues they normally would not openly share," says Avani Rana, TCNJ's director of
leadership, whose team brought Dear World to campus this year. "It helped people realize others
are as complex and complicated as they are." — Kara Pothier MAT '08
N O W W E ' R E T A L K I N G
An international project turns Brower Student Center into part body-art parlor, part group-therapy session.
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