Ukachi Nkwocha
Identify and discuss 3-4 critical incidents that influenced your own development. 2) Discuss
how these incidents and your learning from them influence your view of diversity and
multiculturalism and identify the implications for your current and future self. Your presentation
will include a brief one-page narrative that you will turn in to me.
My name is Ukachi Nkwocha and I am from Chicago, IL and come from a Nigerian-
American home. I have a few critical incidents in my life that have shaped me to be the young
woman that I am today. My first critical incident I would like to discuss would be who I am
today. I came up as a trouble and bullied kid. Because I was a foreigner from nigeria with a
“difficult” name to pronounce, I was immediately looked at as a target and subject to bullying. I
had got into multiple altercations with other students and caused trouble in class mainly because
of the anger I felt from being bullied. I had a mentor named Ms. King who shaped me to who I
