Panelists Joshua Gorero
Joshua is the co-president of the Quinnipiac Political Science Association, vice president of the Asian Student Alliance and director of the Website Committee of QUCulture, an initiative by SGA and MSLC. Career-wise, he would like to work in technology policy, human rights, and international diplomacy.
Jailynn Carballo
Jailynn is a senior double major in journalism and political science, She is the president of the school of communications’ ambassador program, the vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists on campus and the founder of York Me for Black Lives
Andrew DePass Andrew is a senior double major in biology and computer science with a minor in math. He is the executive chair of the multicultural student leadership council and president of the tri-beta biological honors society chapter at Quinnipiac
Olivia Barrios-Johnson Olivia is a first-year 3+1 journalism major. She also serves as the current First-Year Vice President of the Student Government Association (SGA). She acted as the facilitator of this roundtable discussion
18 Activism
Q: What is activism and what does it look like to you?
Andrew: Activism for me, is noticing something wrong with your everyday life or society and taking the actions needed to first get attention to it and then two: make a change. Joshua: Activism for me, is using your voice for good. Andrew: Before to get a message out, if someone wanted to say and write a thesis and get a bunch of people behind something, they would have to go through some big organization that would have some competing works behind them. But nowadays you can just, over in the matter of a minute, send something that can get eyes from anyone and anywhere and have that be shared.
Q: What other ways than taking to the streets can you be an activist?
Jailynn: I think you can be an activist just in the way you speak to others and the way you address other people. I also think that activism could be seen through small organizations we have here on campus. For me personally, I realized that there was a huge issue here in Communications where there was not really any representation for students of color or students of marginalized communities so myself and some other students started the National Association for Black Journalism. Finding a way to make people’s voices heard that are not usually heard could be a really great way to start with activism.
