Rosario Jesús Treviño Yoson is a 2nd year majoring in Economics. They identify as a mixed queer transmasculine person using he/they pronouns. He plans to use their degree to address food insecurity. You can find him in the Diversity Center, the library, or the student radio station in the Neeb building. Dear DJS Student Leaders, It has been an honor to organize your stories this year. When I started, I was a little lost. I hadn’t attempted something like this before. What I uncovered became larger than the website. In conversations I had with each of the writers, I sought to go deeper into their motivations, why they are committed to the work they do towards anti-racism; outside of school and sometimes unpaid. It is the right thing to do, but these students stepped farther, they took initiative and leadership in their own communities, rather than waiting for direction. I was encouraged after hearing from a few writers “this conversation helped me examine some things” or “I h
My name is Andre Jones II (He/Him) and I am a Global Studies Major. I am involved on campus and in the community in several roles. I am mostly recognized as an ASPLU senator class of ‘22. I am a part of GREAN club and SSC. However, I took the time allotted as a senator to focus a lot on issues regarding social justice. I look at social justice work as everyday trying to express oneself and using your voice towards developing your truest self, what you believe in and align with, all while implementing standards better than the past. I found this year the intersectionality of Environmentalism, black and indigenous organizations within Sunrise Tacoma and coalitions alike to be so refreshing. I saw firsthand the importance of integration and collaboration between diversity, justice, and sustainability. Those values should be more ingrained with each other, and they may not be as independent as I thought. My ideology is that your next move should be your best and to take life one day at