Harambee House 

One of our primary goals for this school year deals with increasing community engagement. This is an area in which we have, in the past, struggled with and so we have dedicated ourselves to making sure we are heading towards a completely different direction that will better serve our community. Over the course of the summer, we, the 2020-2021 E-Board have established and begun to put together a concrete plan for increasing engagement within the Black community on campus. This community includes Black students, as well as staff, faculty, and alumni. The first part of our plan involves encouraging all Black leaders on campus to host their meetings in Harambee. This means that we will have more meetings and events taking place in the space with more consistency than ever before. As a direct effect, this will undoubtedly bring more students into Harambee and give them the opportunity to engage with the rest of the community. The second part of our plan includes hosting more on-campus, as well as off-campus, events such as mixers, galas, movie nights, etc. Part of that also means increasing events that specifically target relationship building amongst alumni/faculty and the Black student population. Because of the unfortunate global shift brought upon by COVID-19, we have had to shift the nature of these events and have had to plan them to be either social-distanced or completely virtual. Despite this curveball that we have been thrown, we remain dedicated to the ultimate goal and our team has been working tirelessly to ensure that these events will be safe and accessible to everyone.