-: There's a lot of things I love about my career.
So one of the big things, right, is the chance for
to continue influencing the youth,
as well as my own practices when it comes to activism
and what that looks like.
You know, political issues that we see in the nation
have influence in our universities.
Some things that affect different populations,
like what happened in Charlottesville,
what happened in Ferguson and that kinda thing.
So, in my undergrad, well actually in my grad school
experience I was with the NAACP at Virginia Tech,
and we did a lot of programming and you know,
there were some marches and stuff like that.
When we wanted to help bring attention to national issues,
And to see the students that have their own specific
issues within their own communities that don't get
highlighted and how can I help them advocate for that.
There has to be a line, I guess, when it comes to
faculty and student interactions as far as,
how much help you can give them, what kind of advice
you should be giving them.
When it comes to, I'll just say
advocacy work at a university.
And proper channels that they should be going through versus
other grass roots organizing channels that they can do
that would, you know, put faculty members in a compromise
if they encourage them to go in different routes like that.
So, it's really watching, or walking a fine line between
faculty, faculty to student relationship
versus I'm your friend,
I'm gonna help you do this type of relationship.
So that's really a fine line that we have to walk
that can get hard when your put in
diversity and advocacy based position.