opportunities for members and help to run workshops that address issues of social justice, socio-economic diversity, religious tolerance, sexual orientation, and age/gender and ability stereotypes. Our dedication to community building begins with orientation and opening day activities where students and adults gather to engage in activities about our seen and unseen identities. To increase the dialogue on topics of social justice, diversity, community, and identity, we welcome speakers to campus such as historian Howard Zinn, advocate for non-violent civil action Jim Lucas, antiracism educator Tim Wise, community builder Clifton Taulbert, and art professor and slam poet Kip Fulbeck. We also open our doors to public and private schools by hosting the Deerfield Academy Diversity Leadership Seminar in combination with our Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration to teach the leaders of tomorrow about inclusion and social justice. As we invite others to come to Deerfield and learn with us, DIVERSITY AND MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS
we also collaborate with other schools and attend outside events with our peers and at local colleges and universities. In addition,
At Deerfield, the fostering and nurturing of an educational
we provide opportunities for all community members to attend
community that embraces diversity is much more than a
national conferences such as the People of Color Conference, the
comforting phrase, it is a way of life that is imbued in the ethos of
Student Diversity Leadership Conference, the White Privilege
the institution. In living our mission, the Office of Inclusion and
Conference, and the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network
Community Life provides support and services to all members
Conference. Our programs in diversity and multicultural affairs
of the Deerfield Community, including supervising seven
cut across all aspects of Deerfield. We weave themes of inclusion
student groups (the Deerfield Black Student Alliance, the Latin
and support through academics, athletics, and residential life.
American Alliance, the Jewish Student Alliance, the Asian
All members of the Deerfield community contribute to our
Student Alliance, International Student Alliance, Deerfield
diversity. We do not see diversity as simply race or ethnicity. We
Multicultural Alliance and the Deerfield Gay Straight Alliance)
view diversity in its broadest sense and include race/ethnicity,
that meet biweekly. Student words and images are published
socio-economics, geography, age, occupation, sexual orientation,
in our annual journal Kaleidoscope. The Deerfield Diversity
(dis)ability, family structure, and gender. We believe this is the
Alliance meets to discuss issues of diversity and inclusion
only way to truly live the goal of fostering an educational com-
throughout life at Deerfield. These clubs provide leadership
munity that embraces and celebrates diversity.
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