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Loving Blackness and Humanizing Imagination: (Re)engaging Shared Equity Leadership: Juneteenth Address

May 29, 2024

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CU Engage Student Fernanda Cerros Receives President's DEI Award

May 28, 2024

Whether she's leading a group of middle school students through a process to identify the root causes of problems in their community, or taking a group of Latinx high schoolers around the CU 鶹 campus, there is a strong magnetism around Fernanda Cerros. A recent graduate in double majors of...

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Rain Michael – LSM student and CU 鶹 Student of the Year

May 6, 2024

Graduating senior Rain Michael has always considered themself a musician but didn’t feel they could take on the title of “leader” until they took the course LEAD 1000: Becoming A Leader. “I wouldn’t have necessarily called myself a leader in the same way I do now, if I hadn’t taken...

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Voices of Healing

Dec. 14, 2023

Voices of Healing came into fruition in Spring 2022 and is organized by Ben Kirshner, Solicia Lopez, Lex Hunter, and Beatriz Salazar-Núñez. For a full history of our work see Tracking Our History . Our Stories, Our Healing (OSOH) PAR Project: Spring 2023 In Spring 2023 Voices of Healing collaborated...

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Rumi Natanzi: On the Frontlines of Social Justice and Human Rights

Nov. 7, 2023

鶹 senior, Rumi Natanzi, has a rare passion for social justice and human rights. An Iranian-American student and native of 鶹, she was initially unsure of what major to choose when she first arrived as a transfer student. An advisor pointed her to the Leadership and Community...

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Participatory Action Research Team Documents Campus Experiences of BIPOC Students

May 18, 2023

A team of four undergraduates embarked on a year-long participatory action research (PAR) project to document the experiences of BIPOC students on campus. Danielle Aguilar, a star PhD student in the School of Education and Graduate Research Assistant for CU Engage worked closely with this team in all phases of...

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INVST Antiracism Study Group

May 9, 2023

What We Are Reading: Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey Article by Dr. Sabrina Carolina Sideris, Director, The INVST Program sabrina.sideris@colorado.edu www.colorado.edu/invst On Instagram: @invstcu The INVST Program is a 33-year-old leadership training program at CU 鶹 with a focus on community, social justice, and activism for sustainability. We offer...

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Meet Cynthia Corral Robles, a leader in empathy, reliability, and enthusiasm and a passion for justice

May 2, 2023

Cynthia Corral Robles considers herself “lucky enough” to have stumbled across the Leadership and Community Engagement major in the School of Education. She first discovered the INVST Community Studies program and its summer justice tour of Colorado, which unleashed her passion for community leadership. She traveled the state of Colorado...

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Multicultural Leadership Scholars Student Casandra Garcia Vega Strives to be a Leader at CU

May 1, 2023

For Casandra Garcia Vega college was never an option growing up. “I did not count on financial resources, it was a dream that stayed in my dreams,” she stated in a recent interview. Vega initially viewed getting a college education, within a context where she wouldn’t be seen or heard,...

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Apply for the 2023-24 Community Based Research Graduate Fellowship

April 10, 2023

Graduate Fellowship in Community-Based Research (CBR) CU Engage is happy to announce the return of the Graduate Fellowship in CBR! Apply for the Graduate Fellowship in CBR CU Engage’s Graduate Fellowship in Community-Based Research helps train a generation of scholars in CBR practices/principles and prepares doctoral students for public scholarship...

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