Facilitated by Olga Correa, Cesar Chavez Multicultural Center Director, and Cesar Chavez Multicultural Center Staff
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 2:10 pm-3:10 pm TLC 3206
In this workshop, participants will engage in a conversation and interactive activity about navigating the world with different personal and social identities. The goal is for participants to understand how students from underrepresented may navigate different environments both on campus and in the community, and how we as faculty, staff, and administrators, can do a better job of promoting students’ sense of belonging.
Participants will be encouraged to list the three most important personal and social identities they hold on index cards or sheets of paper (for example, personal: teacher, parent, brother, friend; social: race, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation). After a conversation about why they chose the three identities, participants will engage in a dialogue about what it would feel like if they had to remove one of those identities. Ongoing questions include: How did you decide which identity to take out? Does this activity remind you of any real-life situations? How might underrepresented students have to navigate the same scenario in schools? What impact does this have on young people?
