A month after USC Shoah Foundation’s Intercollegiate Diversity Congress (IDC) Summit, Georgia State University Student Government Executive Vice President Jesse Calixte is still buzzing with ideas on how to make his university, the fourth most diverse in the country, more inclusive for all its students. Armed with testimony clips and other USC Shoah Foundation educational tools he obtained during the Summit, Calixte will have plenty with which to make an impact. “Going to this summit was one of my best decisions so far as a student leader,” Calixte said.

A little more than 70 years ago, two-year-old Mickey Shapiro arrived with his parents, Holocaust survivors Sara and Asa Shapiro, in the United States from a Displaced Persons camp in Germany. When they came to America, Mickey estimates that they had about $8 in their pocket. Sara and Asa built a life and family here in America where they worked with dedication to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive. Mickey honors his parents and carries on that legacy through his work with USC Shoah Foundation.