“community is formed and maintained through a mutual agreement to keep showing up, for each other and through art.”

“What has helped me just as much through my life and career is being ‘people smart,’ which I partially attribute to relationships and opportunities started at Fordham.”

I wouldn’t be a working journalist if I hadn’t been a weirdo and brought my resumé to Elaine Welteroth’s book event senior year…

“in fiction you can let your imagination go a little more”

“The process of writing becomes something you do for a living. You have to commit. You have to put your butt in the chair and your hands on the keyboard and put one word in front of another until you’re done.”

“There are so many skills that an employer can easily teach you, but how to apply critical thinking and how to write well are not among them. These skills are absolutely what an English major provides.”

Roche discusses what prepared him for an internship in public affairs and web design at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago