Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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  Affinity Groups

  Affinity groups provide opportunities for students of shared identities to build community. Meeting weekly on Mondays, Affinity Groups also throw events, host assemblies, and bring in speakers. Currently, there are affinity groups for the following identities: Black/African Heritage, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Latine, Middle Eastern, Jewish, and Multiracial. There is also the Cultural Awareness Organization, which brings together students of varying backgrounds to acknowledge and appreciate a variety of cultural traditions.
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  Speaker Series

  The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Speaker Series brings speakers from a wide array of identities and backgrounds to host assemblies for the student body. From historians and scientists, to refugees and immigrants, the goal of these assemblies is to give students the opportunities to hear from perspectives they might not otherwise encounter.
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  Diversity Forum

  The Diversity Forum is hosted annually, with a Cathedral service, assembly, and small group workshops to explore topics of race, identity, and heritage. By bringing together a diverse student body to meet with guests from a wide range of backgrounds, students have the opportunity to consider their identities, understand how others see the world, and become more thoughtful community members.
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  Travel

  While travel provides students the opportunity to experience different cultures firsthand, St. Alban’s unique fellowship programs provide infrastructure for students to investigate questions of civil rights, justice, equity, and identity. With opportunities like the Teplitz Family Fellowship in Civil Rights and Social Justice, which funds a travel grant to study civil rights and social justice somewhere in the United States, travel is a unique anchor to St. Albans’ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion program.
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  Families Program

  The St. Albans Families program, hosted by Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Rev. Kristin Elliott, brings together interested parents to have roundtable discussions about issues such as race, politics, and identity. The program breaks down boundaries of socioeconomic status, race, and identity to foster a deeper understanding of one another, in turn bringing our community closer.
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  Skip Grant Program

  The Skip Grant Program provides academic and social support and guidance to St. Albans students from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented at the school. Led by OJ Johnson ’97, the program was founded by Skip Grant in 1968.