dialogue & diversity
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In June, CMC announced its new Presidential Initiative on Anti-Racism and the Black Experience in America to deliver a fresh vision, strategy, action plan, and accountable measures for how to best reinforce the College’s values in action. The Initiative combines previous diversity and inclusion efforts with renewed focus and commitments to addressing anti-racism across learning experiences. Through an integrative approach—and with key offices and campus programs leading on innovative pedagogy, trainings, experiential learning, and capacity building for addressing racism—CMC learns, and shows
shared RESPONSIBILITY ethical courage, by doing.
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This is a time for the College to look within and think about, ‘Are there institutional barriers to experiencing the best of what CMC has to offer? Is everything at the College accessible to every member of the community in similar ways and capacities?’” –NYREE GRAY, ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION AND CHIEF CIVIL RIGHTS OFFICER
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JENNIFER FEITOSA
team dynamics at work,
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES
especially those characterized
DIRECTOR OF METRICS LAB
they preach, the team applied
During CMC’s Summer Research
a number of strategies to foster
Program, Jennifer Feitosa
team trust virtually, such as
supervised six CMC students—
sharing parts of their identities
Katherine Almendarez ’22, Amanda
with one another and making
Avery ’22, Leyna Hong ’23, Teslin
connections between their
Ishee ’22, Adrienne Kafka ’21,
passions and the workplace
and Lilian Rangel ’21—in her
literature. “It made what we
METRICS lab to study diversity,
do even more meaningful, as
equity, and inclusion in the
we seek to help people to work
workplace. Feitosa’s lab mission
more collaboratively, understand
is “to understand and improve
different perspectives, and
by diversity.” In practicing what
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