A Sudanese slam poet who fled Darfur when she was a child closed this year’s Yale graduation ceremony

This year, Yale’s Class Day finished with a poem by Sudanese slam poet Emtithal Mahmoud. The graduating student, whose family fled to the US from Darfur when she was a child, started writing slam poetry at Yale, and represented the school in national competitions. Last November, she won first place in the Individual World Poetry Slam Championship, a global contest run out of Washington DC.