Community Outreach Chair
Goal Oriented Action Items:
1.) Collaborate with Community Service chair, Political Action Liaison to plan service, organizing and pro bono events with a goal of at least 1 per semester.
2.) Maintain monthly contact with other Black Grad student orgs and BULA
3.) Help with maintenance of the website and establish a Twitter for BLSA with board approved tweets highlighting group and member achievements.
4.) Establish Constitutionally authorized committees to cultivate leadership amongst 1Ls with the goal of having 8-10 1Ls active on the board or an executive committee within BLSA.
5.) Work with OCP to match each member of BLSA with alumni in their practice area/region
6.) Create pre/post semester surveys to gain feedback on the experiences provided under my position.
Statement of Interest and Vision
I believe I can engage with the larger black community on campus. After attending the Community Organizing workshop where I participated in Austin McCoy's workshop, I learned how grad student groups can play a role in supporting each other on campus. In addition, the lessons he taught about supporting black undergrads as Michigan can be applicable to our relationship with BULA.
Second, as default member of the community service committee, I feel that I would provide continuity to help whoever is the community service chair to …show more content…
I think that seeing how successful the Butch Carpenter committee was in cultivating leadership within BLSA, I believe that we can take advantage of pre-existing constitutional committees to provide more leadership opportunities for our 1Ls. Giving our students these opportunities will not only help them participate in BLSA but provide them with the confidence needed to run for other board positions as 2Ls, increasing our representation in the greater law school
Goal Oriented Action Items:
1.) Collaborate with Community Service chair, Political Action Liaison to plan service, organizing and pro bono events with a goal of at least 1 per semester.
2.) Maintain monthly contact with other Black Grad student orgs and BULA
3.) Help with maintenance of the website and establish a Twitter for BLSA with board approved tweets highlighting group and member achievements.
4.) Establish Constitutionally authorized committees to cultivate leadership amongst 1Ls with the goal of having 8-10 1Ls active on the board or an executive committee within BLSA.
5.) Work with OCP to match each member of BLSA with alumni in their practice area/region
6.) Create pre/post semester surveys to gain feedback on the experiences provided under my position.
Statement of Interest and Vision
I believe I can engage with the larger black community on campus. After attending the Community Organizing workshop where I participated in Austin McCoy's workshop, I learned how grad student groups can play a role in supporting each other on campus. In addition, the lessons he taught about supporting black undergrads as Michigan can be applicable to our relationship with BULA.
Second, as default member of the community service committee, I feel that I would provide continuity to help whoever is the community service chair to …show more content…
I think that seeing how successful the Butch Carpenter committee was in cultivating leadership within BLSA, I believe that we can take advantage of pre-existing constitutional committees to provide more leadership opportunities for our 1Ls. Giving our students these opportunities will not only help them participate in BLSA but provide them with the confidence needed to run for other board positions as 2Ls, increasing our representation in the greater law school