As BSC celebrates The Year of the Ginkgo — the 65^th anniversary of the planting of our signature ginkgo trees — we’ve selected a word of the month that captures a key part of the BSC experience. November’s word is Resilience.

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Robyn Gulley ’20, legislative correspondent for U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, earned a political science degree from Birmingham-Southern. For the 100 minutes on the Hilltop series in 2018, she speaks about how she developed resilience through the loss of loved ones.

“My Uncle Mark had a way of laughing and smiling through the pain,” she says. “He taught my sister and I how to be resilient in our weakness. My world was shaken by his loss. But I told myself: I’m going to live my life as a testimony to him, so that when I’m weak, I can walk in the strength that he walked in.”

Listen to her entire speech, below.