Mikayla Buford

Wishes for the future: How would you imagine your environment needing to be for you to feel that you don’t have to do DEI work anymore? When DEI is not a performative academic practice, and we build long term relationships and commitments to community partners. When...

Zaynab Omar Ibn Al-Khattab Elkolaly

Wishes for the future: How would you imagine your environment needing to be for you to feel that you don’t have to do DEI work anymore? As history continues to demonstrate, the best indicator of the future is the past. Though slavery was abolished in 1865, black...

Alissa Freeman

Wishes for the future: How would you imagine your environment needing to be for you to feel that you don’t have to do DEI work anymore? I think DEI work will always be necessary, but I suppose if I were to picture a utopian society it would be built upon love,...

D. Todd Richardson

Wishes for the future: How would you imagine your environment needing to be for you to feel that you don’t have to do DEI work anymore? When individuals can enter a meeting or a room and not feel all eyes are on them because they are the only diverse person present....

Mattie Levy

Mattie Levy 4th Year Undergraduate Student, Oboe Performance School of Music, Theatre & Dance Being your best DEI self: Think of a time when you were at your best at advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion. What happened? Who was there? Why did you feel at your...