Planning and Facilitating General Meetings and EventsSpectrum has bi-weekly general body meetings. Executive meetings are held on the weeks between general meetings for the purpose of planning. Being a board member required working with other student leaders to create relevant and creative meetings and events based on/around issues that are important to those engaged with Spectrum.
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Organizing and executing the events for Coming Out Week and Rainbow WeekThe biggest events hosted by Spectrum take place during Coming Out Week (typically in October around National Coming Out Day) and Rainbow Week, which is held in the spring. Some of the events that happen during these weeks include: professional and amateur drag shows, keynote speakers, workshops, photoshoots, panels, and the annual Rainbow Awards dinner.
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Building Up the Hamline Community in Off-Campus LGBTQIA SpacesOne of the responsibilities of the Spectrum board is to take general members to LGBTQIA conferences like MOCC and MBLGTACC. These conferences serve as spaces for students to meet new people, connect with peers off campus, attend workshops, and learn something new to take back to the campus community.
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Attending the 27th Annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Indianapolis, IndianaBeing apart of the 2014-15 NCORE Team is one of my most coveted experiences as a student at Hamline University. The most memorable part of the conference was Mark Lamont Hill's keynote speech, which discusses and challenges listeners to grapple with the critical intersections of unfreedom.
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Bringing Our NCORE Experience to HamlineAs a Hamline NCORE Team member, we attend the National conference in May. When we return to campus in September, we begin planning our own NCORE Mini Conference to be hosted at Hamline in January. Our conference focussed on educating and empowering attendees with insights on the past, present and future racialization of the state of Minnesota.
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Opportunity to Attend Workshops and NetworkMy favorite workshop that I attended at NCORE was facilitated by Lee Mun Wah and was titled: Let's Get Real About Racism. The workshop created space for participants to listen and speak candidly with a stranger about our experiences with our intersecting identities, with an emphasis on our racial identities. This was one of the first experiences that really sparked my interest in the power of dialogue.
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Volunteering with the Hedgeman Center to Help with Multicultural MosaicAfter going through the Multicultural Mosaic pathway program in the fall of 2013, I was a student volunteer with many of my peers to help facilitate the Mosaic for the incoming first-years in the fall of 2014.
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Queer2Peer MentorDuring my second year at Hamline (2014-15), I served as a mentor in the Queer2Peer mentoring program. I worked with a first-year over the course of the year to help with the transition from high school to college.
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Green Dot CertificationIn 2015, I completed an 8 hour green dot training. Green Dot seeks to educate trainees on how to engage in bystander intervention to prevent occurrences of power-based personal violence.
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