Greetings Everyone!
Welcome to our newest graduate students and welcome back to all of you! The Access, Diversity, and Inclusion team is looking forward to creating opportunities for you all to make wonderful and lasting memories this academic year. Please join us for the ADI Block Party to be held on September 17th at the Carl A. Fields Center (details in a flyer below). You definitely don’t want to miss it!
In other news, I wanted to share some exciting albeit bittersweet news with all of you. I recently accepted the inaugural Chief Diversity of Equity and Inclusion Officer for The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. This is an incredible opportunity for professional growth and far reaching impact in an environment that will also allow me to utilize my business and entrepreneurial skills, background, and passions in exciting ways. As excited as I am about this new opportunity, it is certainly bitter sweet to depart what has been the most ‘soul-filling’ and purpose driven work of my career thus far. It has been the honor of my professional life to work with my colleagues in The Graduate School, our campus partners, and our faculty to serve you all, the most incredible graduate student community.
I am especially grateful to the Access, Diversity and Inclusion team who will continue the great work that we have started together. I am incredibly proud of the work my team and I have done to help further create a community of belonging for the graduate student community. Our goal is and has always been to ensure that students feel seen, heard, and valued. As a team, we have successfully created and implemented The Grad Scholars Program (GSP), The Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Initiative, The Inclusive Academy Symposium, and The Best of Access, Diversity, and Inclusion (BADI) Awards, while redesigning the Princeton Prospective Ph.D. Preview (P3), the Diversity Fellows Program, and so much more. I am certain that what we have done together with all of you will continue to have a lasting and positive impact. I am also certain that it will continue under Dean Priestley’s wonderful leadership.
I will be here until after the Prospective PhD Preview Program (P3) held on Oct. 6-7th and look forward to connecting with you all at many of our ADI events happening throughout the month of September.
Wishing you a wonderful and productive week!
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Upcoming Events
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"If something makes you sad when it ends, it must have been pretty wonderful when it was happening."
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GSP is...
Community, social support, academic support, intellectual support, moral support, and much more!
Grad Scholars in need of support can contact Dean Vanessa Gonzalez-Perez directly at vanessagp@princeton.edu.
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GSP Orientation Highlights
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Call for Proposals: Wintersession 2023
Wintersession is a free, two-week conference/festival that allows Princeton University undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and staff to experiment and explore through unexpected, active and intriguing non-graded learning and growth opportunities. Anyone on campus can lead a session during Wintersession and anyone on campus can sign up to participate.
Like a conference, undergraduate students, graduate students, staff and faculty can submit proposals to lead a session.
Like a festival, there will be keynote and evening offerings that anyone in the University community can attend and that will be put on by a combination of the central Wintersession office, other campus offices and student groups.
Wintersession 2023 will be held from January 16-January 29, with a wide variety of workshops, evening events and trips, with both in-person and virtual offerings. The Wintersession Proposal Portal is open from July 1-October 15, 202–we can’t wait to see what you want to offer!
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Mental Health Resources
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TigerWell Partnership & Seed Grant Program
The TigerWell Initiative engages staff, faculty and student partners in cultivating a campus community that supports the well-being of all of its members.
Proposals for the grant program are encouraged that center the health and well-being of students holding marginalized identities, including through the application of liberatory approaches. Examples of these groups include but are not limited to: indigenous students, international students, trans and non-binary students, students who are able to become pregnant, and first-generation and/or low-income students.
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Fields Center Fellows
The Fields Fellows are trained by professional facilitators to serve as peer leaders who educate and advocate for the Princeton community in relation to diversity, inclusion, and social justice through peer-facilitated workshops, training, consultation, one to one support, dialogues, as well as serving as informal support for students who experience discrimination and bias.
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