Diversity, Equity and Inclusion News

2025

  • Emma Hall '30

    Holocaust survivor visits RE on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

    Holocaust survivor Allan J. Hall visited Ransom Everglades Middle School on International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, sharing the history of the Holocaust and his heart-wrenching story of survival with eighth-grade students. Introduced by his great niece, Emma Hall '30, he was one of three featured speakers on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp whose aim was to ensure that RE students never forget the atrocities of that period.
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  • RE community comes out for MLK Day of Service

    Nearly 100 members of the Ransom Everglades community – including 50 middle school students – participated in a  Martin Luther King Day of Service food distribution on January 25 that provided nearly 400 families in Miami with a week's worth of food and supplies. The RE students, parents, siblings, faculty and adminstration members manned tables on a chilly and rainy morning, sorting and passing out fresh vegetables, fruit, various food stuffs and home supplies in partnership with the Joshua's Heart Foundation.
     
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  •  Sofia Rhone-Fernandez '26, Carlos Horcasitas '25, Pierce Harris '26, Mia Campbell '25, Jaerla Sajous '25 and Edwin Carr '26 with teachers Robin Escobedo, Karina Buhler and Shaida Escoffery Whitley

    Six RE students share experience at diversity leadership conference with peers

    The six Ransom Everglades students who attended the 2024 Student Diversity Leadership Conference addressed middle school students during an assembly on Jan. 13, sharing personal highlights and meaningful moments from the national conference in Denver in December. Sofia Rhone-Fernandez '26, Carlos Horcasitas '25, Edwin Carr '26, Pierce Harris '26, Mia Campbell '25 and Jaerla Sajous '25 talked about their experiences engaging with many of the 2,000 conference attendees from independent schools across the nation.
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.