Race & Ethnicity

The goal of this community is to provide resources for people who identify with, who are interested in learning more about or who want to support diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. This community offers connections, opportunities, experiences and resources to help navigate obstacles that may arise along your personal and professional journey. In addition, this community is designed to support diverse members of racial or ethnic minority groups that encounter unique challenges throughout their personal, social, academic and professional development. This community recognizes, appreciates, celebrates, promotes, and supports each individual because of their diversity and contributions. We call them “rope teams” because these communities, as many as you are interested in accessing, are here to support your student and alum journey as well as to provide you with an opportunity to support the journey of those you want to help succeed. 

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Milton Bennett Discusses Developing Intercultural Consciousness for Multicultural Survival

The Center for Social Justice and the Civic Engagement Rope Team hosted Milton J. Bennett, co-founder and director of the Intercultural Development Research Institute for a keynote and conversation on communicating across differences on a national and global scale. Bennett …

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How This NSA Systems Engineer Has Grown Her Career by Harnessing the Power of ERGs

One thing Arielle does each day that she wishes more people would do is say ‘thank you.’ “I may say thank you just as much as I say hello in a day. I think it is important to show people …

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Gaining Buy-In As The First Diverse Person On A Team

I have been a Woman in Tech before it was a “thing”. I have a Computer Science degree from the University of Texas at Austin and have been in the Retail Technology sector for almost 20 years. When I first …

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Being Black in Technology: Closing the Diversity Gap

As a Black woman in the Technology community, I know firsthand just how much we’re lacking when it comes to racial diversity. If we’re failing to achieve true equality in the workforce, we are certainly falling behind when it comes …

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World Day for Cultural Diversity For Dialogue and Development, 21 May

Held every year on 21 May, UNESCO leads the celebration of World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development highlighting not only the richness of the world’s cultures, but also the essential role of intercultural dialogue for achieving peace …

By Pamela Jimenez
Pamela Jimenez Program Director for the Center for Social Justice
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How I Advocated For Myself As a Woman of Color in the Workplace

In the late 1980s, a year or so before I entered high school, my father built me a desk and bought me a Commodore 64. I felt like the luckiest kid in Brooklyn. It was a generous act that sparked …

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Honoring Our Heritage, Celebrating Our Future

For over 50 years, Hispanic Heritage Month has been celebrated in the United States from September 15 – October 15.

African American Professional Associations

Compilation of links to the leading African American professional associations, many with career and job sites of their own, collected …

National Urban League Job Network

The Urban League Job Network is backed by the National Urban League and is dedicated to helping diverse students find …

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