About The Equity Peer Leaders
The Equity Peer Leaders (EPL) group was created in 2019 to address equity and social justice related issues on our campus. Equity-minded students develop and lead workshops, trainings, and discussions to name these issues and to craft ways to dismantle them at MSU Denver (Equity Training Series). Join EPLs in imagining and practicing a future where everyone can thrive, honor, and center the truths of marginalized voices.
Equity Training Series
The Equity Training Series (ETS) is a student-led series of workshops, training, and events designed to promote conversation among students at MSU Denver surrounding social justice and racial equity. The Equity Training Series’ speakers, presenters, and facilitators aim to create a common language and vocabulary among MSU Denver students related to equity-minded student leadership. In keeping with the MSU Denver Student Affairs Division’s commitment to antiracism, ETS aims to serve as a safe space and launching pad for dialogue and discourse among students from marginalized identities, their allies, and others to engage in this meaningful and impactful work.
Core Values
Students at MSU Denver are leaders. They have made the choice to attend college-sometimes despite severe economic hardship, intimidating procedures & processes, and overwhelming external commitments. This determination is a large component of leadership.
MSU Denver students are often facing challenges including imposter syndrome and doubt about their leadership and abilities. The EPL program will show students how capable they are, that they have peers who are also succeeding, and that success is possible for them as well.
Culturally relevant leadership models show that marginalized populations may view leadership differently than their more privileged counterparts. Community is a value held in a high regard and the EPL program is designed to provide community among students as well as empower them to make change in other communities to which they belong.
Leadership development at MSU Denver is offered in a variety of spaces and methods. Collaborating with, but not limited to, student organization leaders, sorority and fraternity life leaders, Honor’s Program students, Denver Scholarship Foundation leaders and the departments across campus that provide specific leadership programs is essential in hearing and lifting all voices.
The overarching goal of the EPL program is to prepare student leaders to be their own best advocates in creating an equitable and socially just society.
Events
Castro Professorship-Deliberative Dialogue with Dr. López
Monday, October 16th | 11AM – 12:15 PM | St. Cajetan’s
The term Critical Race Theory has become a flashpoint in American politics, but what does it actually mean for students, staff, and faculty in a higher education setting? How do researchers in academia use Critical Race Theory to inform policies, practices, and knowledge around race, racism, and equity? Please join Dr. Nancy Lopez, the Richard T. and Virginia M. Castro Distinguished Visiting Professorship Recipient for a discussion on intersectionality, Critical Race Theory and its application.
Lunch & Learn: Indigenous Origins of Lacrosse w/ Clark TallBull & Shoot Around w/ Lacrosse
Monday, November 6th | 11AM – 1PM | TBD
Come join the Center for Equity and Student Achievement and the Lacrosse Athletics team for an educational conversation about the history of the sport Lacrosse in collaboration with the lacrosse team at MSU Denver and the Native-Indigenous student support initiatives.
Center for Multicultural Engagement and Inclusion (CMEI)
The Equity Peer Leaders group was created in 2019 to address equity and social justice related issues on our campus and is a group within the Center for Multicultural Engagement and Inclusion.
Questions? Contact CMEI
Learn More About CMEIPhone:
303-615-0606
Mailing Address:
Campus Box 39, P.O. Box 173362, Denver, CO 80217-3362
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