Campus Life, Student Life
Marquette’s Backpack Program helps create a bounty of Friendsgiving memories for students far from home
Before moving to the U.S. eight years ago from Beijing, China, Jiaqi “Violet” Wang had never experienced a Thanksgiving holiday. Her first traditional Thanksgiving stateside was in 2019 with her host family in Illinois. But because of the lengthy drive, the 22-year-old decided to start her own special Friendsgiving dinner with a small group of…
