Campus News
November 11, 2021
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Advocating for a brighter BIPOC future Student leader Brianna D’Haiti is ambitious in all aspects of her involvement at the College, and plans to use her dedication to make a difference for BIPOC individuals in her life after graduation.
Brianna D’Haiti at a Cultural Connections event. (Photo courtesy of Springfield College)
__ By Cait Kemp __ @caitlinkemp09
Springfield College is home to many students who are committed to its philosophy. They dedicate their lives to getting involved, helping others, and striving
to make a difference in the world around them. Springfield College is a community of these types of people, so it isn’t rare to hear about. However, there are a
handful of students who go above and beyond what it means to be a member of the College community, and excel in their passions to help others and change the
world around them. Brianna D’Haiti, a senior dual major in Criminal Justice and Computer Science as well as a Religion minor, is a prime example of this type of student at Springfield. D’Haiti is involved in a lengthy list of clubs and organizations on campus, and she takes on an important leadership role in most of them. When she arrived on campus in the fall of her first year, D’Haiti was instantly involved. She moved in early for the Cultural Connections Leadership Program (CCLP), which is a program offered through the Office of Multicultural Affairs. CCLP allows students to meet others who are also passionate about social justice issues and provides opportunities for conversations and activities surrounding those topics. D’Haiti has worked
her way up to becoming the Co-Coordinator of CCLP and organizes and plans activities and workshops that students can engage in. “We put on programming surrounded by social justice, but we also put on social and educational programs… we have programming surrounded by different heritage months, so we worked with the Latinx Student Organization and we did a bunch of programs for Latinx Heritage Month,” said D’Haiti. Through CCLP, she has also helped to organize movie viewings with a talk-back session, where students have the opportunity to watch a movie that has social justice topics and then discuss the themes as a group to grow and gain knowledge and awareness. She was able to plan one of these sessions with the movie, “The Hate U Give,”
