'Race Experience' Brings Participants Face-to-Face With Diversity, Cultural Identity

Members of the Penn College community, curious about how they would look with altered ethnicity, have visited The Race Experience this past week in Madigan Library. The kiosk, a touch-screen installation on the library's first floor through Friday, takes a digital photograph and transforms it to literally let participants see themselves in a different skin. The booth is designed to facilitate a healthy dialogue on the value of diversity, allowing visitors to share the face-morphing photos via social media and to reflect on societal factors that perpetuate racism and discrimination. Co-sponsored by the Student Government Association, the interactive display – with a mantra of "There is only race: the human race" – reinforces the college's cross-campus commitment as a Community of Respect.
Most photos by Dalaney T. Vartenisian, student photographer