Hi Everyone!
Welcome to the Cultures and Communities
Living Learning Community! I am Bri, the Resident Assistant on Floor 6 of West
Tower, and I am directly involved in the LLC because I live here and will be
planning events for everyone. Also involved in the LLC is Camilla, the RA on
the 8th floor of West Tower and your peer mentor, Luz. We can’t
forget our LLC stakeholders, Jen, the director of the LGBT Center, Mai Yer, the
interim director of the Inclusive Excellence Center, Rachel Buff, Executive
Director of the Cultures and Communities program, and Ariel Milton, Assistant
Director of the MKE Scholars program. We are very excited to meet everyone in
the LLC, and we can’t wait for you to see all of the fun events we have in
store for you.
We have already had our LLC kickoff
event, a button making ice cream social. At this event, residents of the
Cultures and Communities LLC and their friends socialized and began to make
connections with the people they live around. I was told that the ice cream was
delicious, and the company was friendly! Also, at this event, residents were
able to make their own identity buttons. Residents were given the option of
putting their personal pronouns on a button, or writing/drawing something else
that represents their identity. By the end of the event, we were all full of
ice cream, and had many new buttons to put onto our backpacks (buttons on
backpacks seem to be a trend at universities).
We are so excited for the upcoming
events this year! Upcoming, we will be attending the Coming Out Monologues
Event, as a part of National Coming Out Week. This event is on Monday, October
8th; we hope to see you there!
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