Engaged Opportunity Grants
Community Intersectionality Advocates
Developing self-reflective skills and a global view to advance multiculturalism and social justice within the Cornell community.
Community Intersectionality Advocates, or CIAs, are role models and leaders trained to encourage dialogue amount students, discuss on-campus resources and work toward creating truly inclusive communities. By connecting with their peers through discussion and community development, CIAs assume an active role in the advancement of multiculturalism and social justice at Cornell. With this grant, CIA student leaders attend a conference, organized by the Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture, to reflect on their cultural identities as well as learn how society shapes the identities of others. This knowledge empowers CIA students to spread this deeper awareness across Cornell. They develop campus-wide initiatives to build safe peer-to-peer discussions around intersectionality and advocacy. They also create and facilitate diversity programming for first-year and transfer students’ winter orientation.
Grant category: Student Leadership
Topics: Access, Equity and Justice; Culture, Language and History
The Team
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Theoria Cason, Residential and New Student Programs
Student and Campus Life
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Blayne Stone, Campus and Community Engagement - Mary Donlon Hall
Student and Campus Life
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Devan Carrington, Campus and Community Engagement
Student and Campus Life
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Catherine Ramirez, Campus and Community Engagement
Student and Campus Life
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Jordan Fason ’20
College of Arts and Sciences
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Kathie Lin ’20
College of Engineering
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Sydni Green ’20
College of Arts and Sciences
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Henrietta Clark ’20
College of Engineering
- Conference: Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture
Engaged Opportunity Grants
Supporting a wide range of community-engaged learning projects, from student leadership programs and partnership building to events and conference travel. Open to all faculty and staff.