Diversity Programs & Resources for CSU Students

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Again, welcome everyone. Thanks for being here and taking the time to engage with us in this webinar today before we dive in. I did want to take a minute just to name that.

Uh, there's a lot happening in the world right now, and maybe that feels heavy. Maybe that's bringing up different emotions an other feelings.

I recognize that that's a really vague thing to say, right? There's a lot going on in the world and I think it could be a problem for me to not be naming specifics. The names and communities and reality is.

We also recognize that CSU is a global community, right? and I think for all of us there are things going on at the individual level. The local level, nationally, internationally, and so I am 100% sure that as I start to kind of name what's going on in the world that I would be leaving some things out. and I think that might also be a problem in a different way, so I will. I will own my bank statement, but I'm saying all of this just to recognize that.

This webinar isn't happening happening in a vacuum, right? There's a lot of other stuff going on and so with that in mind, I invite you if you want to to join me in a moment to just pause. Feel free to use the pause to just be quiet or reflect. You could check in with yourself, see how you're doing, maybe just ground yourself, take some breaths, get some water, whatever you need to do, and at the end of the pause moment I'll bring us back together and then we'll go directly into why we're here today to talk about some diversity programs and services at CSU.

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All right, thanks everyone. If you were opposing.

So let's get started today. We are going to be sharing more information with you about diversity programs and resources for CSU students. There are Seven cultural and resource centers at CSU and we have a panel of amazing students with us and they are here representing each of the different offices and centers. So they're going to call you a little bit more less, either going to tell you a little bit more about what's happening in their centers, and there also here to answer your questions so.

Any questions that you have about diversity at CSU, the offices even just their experience as students here.

Uh, let me introduce myself. Also, my name is Luxmi Shastri. I use she her hers pronouns and I work with the student diversity programs and services or SD. PS for short and that's just what we call all of the diversity offices together.

Uh, my role here today is really just to introduce the web and R and then in a minute I'm going to turn it over to our panelists. And then I'll let them introduce themselves and share a little overview of each of their offices and then that will be the first half of our session. And then the second half will be some open time for questions. So throughout today, feel free to add comments and questions in the chat box and I will read those and share those with the group during that second half Q&A.

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Alright, I think that's all of the intro stuff. Um, let me go to my next slide.

Which is not working, so that's fun. Technology glitch already, um?

But I will just read that offer us so the next slide is a list of the Seven cultural and resource centers. So there's the names of all of those there and then also the names of the panelists who are representing each office.

So to start off, we have the Asian Pacific American Cultural Center or a pack for short. Next we have the black African-American Cultural Center or back.

Um, we have El Centro.

And then we have the Native American Cultural Center or a knack for shorts. The Pride Resource Center, the student disability center, or SDC for short, and then last on the list. We have the women and gender advocacy center or the W Gac.

I can't see the slide, so I hope I didn't miss anything. I'm asking my panelists. did I get all of it?

OK, awesome, so we're going to go in this order.

Let's start off with a pack up before I turn it over to you. Just a heads up, I'll have each of you introduce yourself, say a little bit about the office. Anything else you want to share. Take about four minutes and then and then I'll pass it over to the next person. So yeah, let's start with a pack.

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Alright, let me check in Ethan. Is your mic working OK? Do you feel OK to share?

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Yeah hi everybody. Hi Haley up my name is Ethan and I represent the The Black African-American Cultural Center here at CSU, so the back office as we call it it really is a space for people who identify as identify with the experience of black African Americans in this country today. So a little bit about our mission statement. Just so I'll read the mission statement. Excuse me, the black the Black African-American Cultural Center promotes a diverse inclusive campus environment that serves as a resource to the campus community.

As well as the surrounding communities through academic, professional, cultural and personal development, programs that embrace and are centered around really. The black African American experience.

No, uhm, everything that we do. But like I've already said, centers around the black African American experience. But it also centers around an acronym that we have that we call clamp and everything that we do in the office has something to do with clamps. So what that standing for seeing me the seating for cultural programs and then leadership, development, academic enhancement, mentorship programs and personal development in the back office is not only invested investing in the students well being and their development while there.

At CSU, but more so assuming but even more so, that their continued development after they graduate, and everything that they do outside of CSU as well. It's a great space, it just being community with one another. We have a bunch of different student organizations that we work with, have a bunch of different programs that we put on one of our most popular being real talk. We hold it on Tuesdays, which is really just sort of moderated open forum discussion about just different issues that may be impacting the black African American community out in the world on Csus campus. Really anywhere.

And, uh, it's not an exclusive space, it's in fact it's a very inclusive space and we invite anyone and everyone into the office who is just willing to come sit being community, learn, ask questions, or just show support in any way they choose so.

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Do you want to talk about the student disability center since you're on and your audio is working right now?

I'm a senator for the student disability center. UM, my pronouns. Are she her hers soon disability center is, as its name suggests, about there to help students with disabilities so I can help with housing or working with professors or getting to campus or anything like that. You know, there I've lost my train of thought.

Um, they're really great for helping with all his abilities, so you know, the ones that people think of us with classic disabilities. For want of a better term, you know, hearing loss, vision, lost, mobility issues. They are also really good for helping with temporary disabilities, so if you break your arm and you can't take notes, they can help with that. If you break your leg and you can't walk to class, they can help with that. Or they can help with mental health issues. So anxiety, depression, Pete, ESD, things like that super great. So for me.

I have a degenerative disability, so at the beginning of the semester, spring semester, I was able to walk to class. It was a little bit hard for me, but I was able to, but then by the end of the semester I was in a wheelchair, almost full time and so they were able to help me to adjust my combination so that I could actually get what I needed to done and still function as a student. They are completely HIPAA compliant, so anything you say to the advisors stays with just that, the advisors.

Which is really great. Um, I had another point, but I don't remember, though that's probably good.

Awesome, thanks for that and you can always add stuff back in during the Q&A 2.

Um, let's try Lindsey with El Centro. Are you able to share audio right now and start broadcasting?

Nope, so let's Come Back to Lindsey.

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Nope, still can't hear you, Lindsey. So I'm going to pause and come back to you. See if you can play with the microphone at the top and that icon and see if that helps. And also let me pause and say thanks everyone in the audience for bearing with us. It's really cool that we get to do this virtually in reach folks all over and then this probably also comes in some tech issues, so we are figuring it out.

Uhm, let me go back to Haley Healy. Are you able to broadcast yourself and come back?

Yes I am. Can you hear me perfect time rewind my name is Haley. I use they them. I am a student coordinator from The Pride Center. So basically the price in our dust provide lots of resources for all CSU students to explore and also increase their understanding about their sexual orientation, gender, identity, intersection. So it's kind of like an open space for you to explore who you want to be and how you want to change yourself throughout college experience or even after that as well.

But we do hold lots of like events and programming to show my visibility of what it means to be a part of the Resource Center and as well as being Queer. So we do have lots of workshops, lots of resources to navigate support, especially with like coming out and questioning and also.

Folks that are trans, gender, or just gender fluid and general, and so it's a lot of like exploring who you want to be in, like being able to be open about how that looks like for you as well. So we're definitely need a group where we are accepting we always like to bring in new ideas and would like to try new things so we're always here to support. So if you all want to tune into like the chat were always there. Also through our like newsletter and.

Also, like you know, social media platforms like Instagram and such. So if you have any questions about that, definitely recheck twist. But that is kind of like the small gist of what The Pride Center is.

Awesome, thanks so much for sharing more about The Pride Resource Center.

Um, let's see who else can we hear from.

Let's see if we can look back to a pack and see if we can hear more about that center.

Right, so let's not do that for now. How about knack? The Native American Cultural Center? Are you able to come back on an share a little bit?

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My name is his uni hash. I'm going to be a sophomore at CSU and I've been involved with a Native American Cultural Center as a student employee for the past year and I'm currently a summer intern.

I wanted to share with you a little about my experience with the Native American Cultural Center and it's important to me as an incoming freshman, an I really advocate for the next ability to create a home away from home. I feel like, as a native student, as a woman of color as a minority coming into such a large campus and big community, it's important to have those cultural ties, and it's important to feel welcomed.

In order to make the most of your educational experience so the Native American culture Cultural Center was established in 1979, and its mission is basically to facilitate academic success and provide cultural support through retention.

A recruitment and community outreach.

So on my web and R Slide I have listed some programs offered by the next center that kind of assist in these educational opportunities and these cultural opportunities. The eagle feathering tutoring program is great to receive educational support. The North Star Peer mentoring program is a program that I had great experiences with, or an upperclassman is able to give you a little bit of guidance and support. The All Nations leadership retreat is great for team building and leadership skills.

Uh, they've gone to Estes Park in the past. The native women circle is another social group that really let's you practice tradition and kind of get.

I don't know find your identity. I guess within the office and then the Native American Heritage Month during November is a great celebration and a series of events that are used to celebrate a Native American Heritage and really build the community. And then there are also outreach programs too.

Get more Native Americans involved in higher education and talk about stem and really outreach and build those ties to communities that aren't on campus.

But if you have anymore questions you can contact us through our social media, Instagram, Facebook or visit our website. Thank you.

Thanks so much for sharing some more great information about Mac.

Let me see if we can turn it over to the W GC. The women and gender advocacy center.

Are you able to broadcast and share?

Hi can you hear me?

Yep, I can hear you.

Hi so I'm Kristen Uh my pronouncer she her and hers and I'm going to be a fourth year woman in gender studies and social work. Double major. I work as a student employee and I volunteer for the woman in gender advocacy center and.

Center is to support survivors of interpersonal violence, so that could be anything like rape, sexual assault, stocking relationship, violence, anything under that umbrella. And we know that students come to see us. You haven't had these experiences, so we're here to support them. And then if students near services well on campus, we are always here. We also do educational programming alongside advocacy so we do programming trying to reduce the rates of sexual assault and interpersonal violence on CBS News campus.

Through education, about consent about sexual assault and all of these things. So the office provides a lot of support to a lot of victims and survivors, and we have a lot of fun in our offices, even though it may not seem like we would have some fun, we generally try to keep our office is a pretty welcoming and fun place for people to come out. Just relieve stress and hang out, but the advocates in professional staff are also always there. If students need anything and we have our 24 hour.

Back to Mississippi steam hotline, which is available 365 days a year. Whenever someone needs it, there will always be an advocate available for students. So yeah.

Thank you.

Awesome, thanks so much, Kristen.

All right folks, I am still not able to move the slides forward, but when this is recorded you'll definitely be able to look at the slide about each of the centers after. So definitely check out all of that great information.

Uhm, let us try going back to a pack one more time and see if technology cooperates with us.

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Awesome, thanks so much for sharing more.

OK, I think that is 6 out of the Seven of our panelists. Uhm, let's try to see if Lindsey from El Centro Ken come back on and Rebroadcast and share a little bit more about that office.

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OK, well on my end I think Lindsey finished or froze.

So we got to hear a little bit from each of the student panelists. There are still a couple tech issues on my end, so I can't see questions that are coming in, but I think I have a work around. So what I'll do right now until I see some questions coming in from you all is to ask some prepared questions I have to our panelists so.

Yeah, let me ask the question and then, um.

Folks can rebroadcast to share their answers from the panel. So the question I have is how have you all found connection or community or belonging at the centre you're representing? Where else on campus have you? Have you found some of this? So yeah, really speaking to some of the community and belonging feelings and how you found those in the diversity offices.

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Uh, I've been a CC for about four years now. I'm going in my final year as a political science major, and.

Oddly enough like I didn't actually visit the the back office for about a year, um, but when I did uhm. I was just it was they were overwhelmingly welcoming uhm. They told me how they could be a resource to me and help me just sort of integrate myself in the CSU. 'cause also trying to figure out a lot of different things. And I'm not from Colorado. I'm originally from Louisiana. So I didn't know anybody. I don't have any family up here. I don't have any friends or anything like that, so I was literally just coming into a completely different environment.

And like I said, the back office was just overwhelmingly welcoming. They reached out to me. They found me. They came to me, invited me into the office and when I do, if I work at the courage to go in there and it was amazing, I joined an organization called United Men of color and from there just sort of found like a group of people that I really identified with the home and sort of like a purpose.

And since then, I've just been trying to kind of give back to the back office as well as introduce more people to it and just count. People realize that it is a community and it is very necessary and it helps a lot, especially in times like this with just a lot of different things going on it just it's nice to be able to go to a place or.

No, people from a place, and you're all sort of on the same page and you can vent to them and just come to them like a like a family so.

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Any of her other panelists want to share how they found community or a sense of connection at CSU?

I can go ahead and share all right here for y'all about if you forgot my name already just going anyways. So yeah, As for me like it took me a really long time to come up publicly. Just because the career field I had chosen before. I kind of like didn't allow myself to do that. And so I knew of the Pride Center as I like. Join CSU Ann. I was always afraid to go in one because I am a Latina and so like I just didn't like the intersectionality and how that would influence mean as well.

But uhm, I went to campus step up and there I met like, well, I had previously met load up, but like I had one on one interactions with her. And so I was able to really get a feel of what The Pride Center is. And so I really got motivated until once we came back from winter break I went into the office, signed up for the newsletter and then I gotta drop there. So. But when we talk about community, it's it's. It's there, you know. And we try to create as many programs as many.

You know resources for people who identify with all sorts of, you know, just in general identities or just what you want to explore in such. And it creates an open space where we're not going to judge You for certain things that you change throughout your years or just in general. But just to really be there to support you and to let you know that it is OK to be very nervous, especially when coming out, because that is a really huge aspect of your life. If you're not out yet.

Or just in general we create the support for people who are are seeking it, and so it's a great way to really navigate yourself through The Pride Center and it opens up different possibilities indoors for you as well.

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OK, thanks Haley. Um hope I didn't cut you of.-

OK, sorry about that.

Uh, does anybody else want to respond to that question before we move on to another? Anything else about connection or community or belonging?

I am I just wanted to share my experience coming into.

OK, um we nicka sharing some of your chat questions with me. It looks like there's a question specifically for knack. Does the Native American Cultural Center host frybread Fridays?

We don't right now, but that actually sounds like a wonderful idea.

So that question I'm saving for a knack panelist if she still here.

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And I was just going to tell her that she should go well. We're waiting for Lakshmi or good.

OK, let me ask another prepared question as other questions come in. So to all of the panelists, what are some challenges that you experienced as a student, whether that was personally, academically, socially, just any challenge that you faced while you're at CSU and how did you seek out and receive support from the diversity offices and the different centers?

I'm going to try to unbroadcast myself and feel free to just hop in if you have something you want to share.

OK, well to keep it running I'm going to ask lock shoes next question 'cause she sent them out to us says what are some challenges you have experienced as a student? How did you seek out or receive support especially from the culture and resource centers that were next question. So we should answer that.

OK, I am back um I put out that question about challenges that our panelists might have experienced as a student.

Any takers anyone wanna share to that question?

I can answer it. I hope y'all can hear me. I apologize, but um, if y'all can hear me let me know.

OK, so then let's start to ref up. Uhm, let me just open it up. If any of the panelists have anything else they want to share, things that they wanted to add on to their first introduction or anything that they really want to share with NYU students for steers and transfer students who are joining the CSU ram community.

Any final thoughts from our panel?

Question in itself, one of the most important things to understand well personally for me was the hardest step is walking in that office. When I was a first year, I was very shy, Ann, I didn't really know if I felt welcomed enough to go to student diversity center in my head when it came to the different offices. I just kind of assumed that I had to spit the certain box or a certain role to go there I was like.

I'm Asian, can I have it? Goodell, central or like can I like go to back and it was so scary to think of as an idea and it was really easy to underestimate myself. But the moment I put myself out there and walk through the door of every single of the cultural center's 100%, they never. I never felt judged and it was just the biggest hurdle. And then after that it was smooth sailing, kind of like jumping off a Cliff. But you got a parachute on you. I think it was really hard for me to understand that.

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Everyone wasn't looking at me for what I looked like or what I gave myself out to be. They just accepted me for who I was, and I think that's something that took a lot of courage and I definitely takes time, especially to build that up. Because when you're being exposed to new place and you're going into college.

Everything is super scary, so I think that would be one of the most important things to understand is just to know that it's just taking that first step and knowing that you don't have to be a certain someone. I know walking into a pack I was like my little Brown but is terrified. I'm so scared to walk in like everyone else will look completely different for me. I identify as Cambodian American and there's only like 200,000 of us in the US, so I was scared no one would relate to me. But it wasn't the fact that.

I am going to put some of the all of the Web sites in the chat. I think the websites to the different diversity offices are the best way to get in touch to really dig deeper an look up more of the events and programs in different opportunities that our panelists were sharing about. I think social media is also a great way to stay in touch with the different offices so you can find that from the Web sites. I know that a lot of offices put out amazing content on Facebook and on Instagram, and that's really a great way to stay connected with the most.

We couldn't relate to me. It's the fact that they wanted to learn and know me as a person, and I think that's what's really important and I hope y'all is slow. Go ahead and push that forward.

UpToDate happenings so uhm I am going to pause here and then add some of those details in the chat. Please feel free to reach out. I'll also leave my contact info there. Reach out if you have questions or want to follow up about anything but again thanks so much for.

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Being here and an wanting to learn more about the diversity, resources and thanks for your patience with some of our tech issues. We appreciate it.

Thus, in Disability Center it really just took the push of accepting that I just needed that little extra help to get through stuff because.

Living in life today most of the time everyone's just like, yeah, just push through all of the problems and everything and you'll just fine. Just do it and just do it. Even if you're struggling. But SEC is there to make sure that you cannot do it without struggling so much that you're going to fail because they don't want you. Everyone, everyone to CSU and I'm kind of speaking for all of the DPS offices. Everyone's here because they want to make sure that everyone is succeeding and everyone feels like there at home at CSU.

So I would agree that I do so.

I can share a little bit, uhm, so I'm actually a transfer student. I went to College in Boston before coming to CSU for a semester enema survivor of sexual salts. So being able to connect with a center dedicated entirely towards supporting victims and survivors was awesome for me and I didn't have that at the previous college, which led to me leaving the school. So the fact that CSU has be is resources available.

If students need them is really, really great. It's never fun to think about interpersonal violence. We never have to want to think about it, but since it is a very real reality for very many people, it's important that we do have these resources so the W GC is committed to supporting all students, regardless of gender, expression, or identity. I know we say woman engine or advocacy center in people, but we include everyone, even men a lot of times. Men think that they can't because.

But you get, um, so we are really committed to supporting all students, regardless of any of their identities or embracing all of those identities. Excuse me, not regardless of them, but embracing those identities and serving survivors based on their those identities.

Alright, I'll go ahead and share. I also just like wanted to recognize that you know whether it's your first year or whatever you're transferring into CSU. It is a big transition and so you're getting thrown like a lots of information at you, like you should do this and you should try this and you should do that so it is going to be like very nerve wracking, very scary. But The thing is, you're not alone because many, many, many people experience that. And so that's why CSU does have really great.

You know, centers that you can visit and then you can explore and they are open to anyone that wants to go in kind of thing. And so I definitely do recommend just taking it in if you have to write it out, lay it out for you to see what offices you want to visit and take it step by step. Also be very patient with yourself because you also have to take into consideration that you're going into a very big space, new space and you have to like learn your environment and which is normal for every human being so.

Um, just take it in once like a little bit as you can. Don't overwhelm yourself either. Just know that were always there and that every center in every person out here is rooting for you, so it's always a great positive thing to think about.

Hello, I also wanted to share a little bit more about the Native American Cultural Center cultural centers importance. As an incoming student and when I came to CSU I was obviously very scared and I'm not a very social person so getting to meet new people and getting involved at the campus is a very hard thing to do, but I feel like.

With the diversity offices.

It's like a steps already been taken. You know, like you already know that there are people there who are going to automatically support you and automatically provide a home away from home for you.

You don't really have to go into, you know an intermural sport or you don't know anybody or go into a club where you don't know that much about the material.

The diversity offices are great for meeting new people and already establishing a connection or who you already have established a connection with. I think without the diversity office.

Um, coming into CSU? I definitely would not have met some really great people that I have had the opportunity to meet Anna lot of opportunities that I have in the future. I would not have.

If it weren't for Native American Cultural Center, I think it's definitely a crucial part of the decision making process. Having an environment like this available to you when you're deciding where you're going to continue your educational career as well as your life.

Everybody, uhm, just like to say a couple quick things, uhm?

The STP officers. This guy's DPS offices are are just a Subaru intra goal and.

Necessary a staple at CSU? Uhm, to be Frank with everybody, there is a problematic things happening at CSU the past several years, at least since I've been at CSU, it seems like every year there's something that pops up and.

I'm so happy that I have the support system that I do, um in the back of a place to vent a place to talk, a place to share, stories to plan, and to advocate for one another. And just there's just strength in numbers, strength and having a community. And it's not each S DPS office by itself. We all come together to support one another and that's extremely important. Extremely important.

And so yes, so they are there, and they're necessary. They're amazing. And uhm, they serve huge purpose. And the more people that we can get into these offices and spread their message further and wider, the more of an impact we can have at CSU and just make campus life better for everybody. So.

OK, we have a question from Micah. Hopefully I'm saying Your name right are the centers open like a normal business or standard office hours or are they available during weekends and evenings for students to gather?

STC is open like normal business hours I think, but I can't speak for the rest of.

Uh, so I sold the back office is open every every day. Bye see me Monday through Friday from 825 uh. A lot of times it's open, uh, quite a bit later than that. There are different student organizations that use the space for meetings or pro staff usually stays behind our. There's usually students, staff member with a key that's in there doing homework or something like that. Or just being in the space to keep it open to provide.

Kind of longer, quiet or study hours for, um, people just kind of want to hang out towards the end of the day. So I've been in that office scene. I've been in that office, so like 1011 at night sometimes, so it really varies in the day, but most of the time the hours do extend beyond 5:00 PM.

Back office that's very similar to how a pack works. We do have our standard hours of I think it's eight to five, but we always always on him every single time. We say after hours and we call it a pack after dark. Whether it's us doing like a seamless Ubi night or one of the organisations meeting it, we can state most of us stay there around like 10 to 11 at night, especially during finals. Alex, he stays for longer hours to help kids study and give them a place.

So we can stay there for as long as you would want, and we really trust the people in our community, so we trust our if someone is studying or needs to print or has an exam at like 8:00 o'clock at night, we have no problems like letting them use the space and close up for us. We think it's really important, not only make sure that you are at a safe place, but that you were given access to all the things you need in order to succeed, and I feel like we are really good at representing that with giving.

With giving you that space at on campus because we also know a lot of students to live off campus and live bars away from everything happening. So yeah, we're always open, and if you ask nicely, our supervisor will 100% give you our office so.

Sorry, I just want to give a quick shout out to a pack and their couches. They're the best office. Take a nap and I promise you that.

I am so the WGC office hours are eight to five and our office is a little bit more strict about keeping our office open late. Just because we are confidential space so we can't leave students in the office alone without employees there. So between our state and five are open and then if we have an event that evening, our office will be open, but otherwise it we normally close pretty regularly at 5:00 and then we have our.

As I said before, 24 hour victim assistance team hotline. So if someone needs us, we're still available to respond and to chat and everything like that. But we do close at 5 pretty regularly.

OK, I'm back, I hope this works, um.

So I put another question to the panelists in the chat. Wanted to see if there were ways that the diversity offices work together or if you have been connected to more than just one office and we're coming up on our time. So we'll just take the last five minutes to see if there's any answers to that question. Or if you all have any final parting thoughts for people who are engaging in this webinar.

I'll go ahead and share. So like I mentioned before, I am Latina, so I'm a Queer Latina. So and it's it's a pretty awesome because Pride Center and then this isn't there was like right there. And so there's just literally like a door between us. So we're actually trying to be creative in trying to think of ideas to how to bring us back together and kind of just, you know, mesh. It also where we can find that community within the different spaces. Because yes, we do have different offices and we're all like.

All over the place, but we are all a part of a community where we can come together and feel accepted and welcomed. But yeah, so you can have intersected identities and still visit all these offices. You just have to be comfortable to going and just knowing that like we're all accepting and we're not going to tell you know, walk away because that's not who we are. And that's not what we do. So just keep that in mind that you can visit all of them. Whether you have those identities or not. But just be also cognizant.

Of the space that you're taking up as well so.

OK, anybody else on the panel want to share any final questions from our participants before we wrap up?

Like actually rap up, I know I wrapped up again earlier.