MCC Newsletter! October 1, 2014

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Every day the MCC works to provide vital co-curricular opportunities where students, faculty, staff & community members are able to collectively envision and work towards a more equitable, accessible, and relevant university, while also supporting each otherâ€™s personal and professional growth and development.

Liaison Spotlight!

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The purpose of our Liaison Spotlight it to bring forth the voices of our interns who are engaging in amazing work outside of the MCC, and with other community spaces.
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Montze Garcia and Spencer Pritchard are currently liaisons between Cross-Cultural Student Development (CCSD) and Multicultural Community Center.

I, Montze, am extremely excited to be part of the first cohort of CCSD liaisons because I see it as an opportunity to make sense of my identities in a way that promotes the practice of intersectionality. Being rooted in multiple different identities, as an undocumented, Xicana, and women of color in STEM, just to name a few, I hope that my and our work helps facilitate ways in which solidarity and unity can be more tangible here at Berkeley. More than anything, I want to be able to utilize this work as a framework that can be practiced on and off campus so that the work that we do as students of color does not end the moment we graduate.

I, Spencer, am particularly excited about this work because coming from a mixed racial background I have always felt like two different cultures were colliding within me. From my friend groups to the spaces I am involved with, I have always been involved in multiple communities. I believe that if we wish to resist the white capitalist hetero patriarchy (shout out to bell hooks) than we must, as people of color, have an intersectional approach. The next large movement of our times must be radically intersectional, inclusive and cross cultural. I firmly believe that, and that is why I am dedicated to finding common ground on the multiple issues we face on and off campus

We have a lot of exciting plans for this year. We are focusing our work around three goals.

First, we want to host workshops for student groups to support the development of their organization, whether that's a power & privilege workshop, allyship & solidarity, or whatever the organization needs. Additionally we wish to train student leaders to be able to host these workshops for themselves as well.

Second, we wish to hold critical dialogues across different communities to build solidarity and shared hxstories. We want to bring as many groups together to talk about issues and how they affect multiple communities from multiple levels.

Lastly, we want to bring community leaders together to create a vision for our communities on campus and how we can thrive as a multicultural community for years to come.

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EOP DROP-IN HOURS in MCC
10/2: 1:30-3:30pm

Avisha is excited to bring EOP academic counseling services to the MCC! In an effort to connect more students to an academic counseling unit on campus, Avisha will be at the MCC once a week for the Fall 2014 semester.

Avisha Chugani has been an EOP Academic Counselor at Cal since 2010. Prior to serving students within EOP, she was a major adviser in the department of Architecture (CED) and a counselor in the Career Center. Avisha hopes to help students with not only surviving but THRIVING at Cal and beyond, no matter what a student's path and interests are.

Check out our calendars for updated on when Avisha will be in the MCC!!!

Also, look out for our intern run MCC Wednesday events! Make sure to check out our online calendars to stay up to date on what's happening in the MCC and beyond!

Come visit us at our temporary space in Hearst Field Annex D-37.

Hours
Mondays: 9am-6pm
Tuesdays-Fridays: 9am-10pm
Saturdays: 9am-6pm.

In solidarity,

The Multicultural Community Center

Upcoming Events in MCC

Movie Screening: All Power to the People
Friday, Oct 3rd 6pm - 8:30pm
As a follow-up to Iota Phi Theta's recent "Justice or Just Us" event, and in collaboration with Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., This event will be held as a space for community members to come and dialogue and engage in light of recent police brutality incidents throughout the nation, and discuss action steps in regards to organizing, healing, and moving forward. The screening of the powerful documentary will last approximately two hours and the event will end with a poem or closing speaker.

Multicultural Community Center
October 8, 2014
4:00-6:00pm

Join us for this community-building event and de-stress while learning a new craft. Supplies will be provided. If you have any questions, contact Ashtyn Colegrove (a.colegrove@berkeley.edu)

Sponsored by: Native American Student Development, Native American Recruitment & Retention Center, and the Multicultural Community Center.

QTPOC Perceptions Presents: Hair!
Wednesday, October 15 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm

This purpose of this event is to:
(1) Create a safe space for folks to celebrate our different types of hair.
(2) Critically think about how Queer and/or Trans* People Of Color (QTPOC) are perceived and how they perceive themselves because of their body and/or head hair.

This will be part of a four part series through the academic year called "QTPOC Perceptions" which will also cover: body image, colorism, and fashion.

More Events & Resources

API Connect
Drop in Counseling for
Asian American & Pacific Islander students

API Connect: Caring for Ourselves and our Communities was created as part of a grant received by the Tang Centerâ€™s Counseling and Psychological Services and Health Promotion that focuses on the promotion of API mental health and prevention. A website was created with the goals of providing info on stress, depression, anxiety, API student stressors, coping, student videos, and parent videos.

Through our partnerships, students are able to drop in APASD (Chavez 249) to seek counseling and speak to our resident psychologist, Lilian Chang.

Lilian is available on Mondays and Tuesdays 10am - 12pm or by appointment.

Check out our Collective Community Calendar for upcoming events for

Relationship Violence Awareness Month & National Coming Out Week

Sponsored by the Gender Equity Resource Center

For more information, contact Marisa Boyce