From rural Haiti to UChicago: Ulysse launches Creole and Haitian studies minor, among few in the US

From rural Haiti to UChicago: Ulysse launches Creole and Haitian studies minor, among few in the US

In 2006, Gerdine Michel—then a junior high school student—boarded a small motorboat from the coast of her hometown, Anse-à-Galets, La Gonâve, heading 30 miles northwest toward Port-au-Prince in search of a better education. Two years later, she made an even bigger leap, taking a flight to Wisconsin, United States, leaving behind her parents and eight siblings. She also decided to leave her law studies, which she had started at the State Universi…