Black Graduate Student Association at UT Austin

We aim to empower and provide support to Black graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin #BlackLivesMatter

[Black Graduate Student Association at UT Austin @UTexasBGSA]

Everyone please come out and support an innovative and talented Black graduate student Jaden Janak
@Jaden_Malcolm
at the Graduate Teaching Showcase
on Friday 3/26 9am

Link below!

[Center for Teaching and Learning @UT @CTL_UT]

Next is Jaden, and their compelling story about the power and necessity of anti-racist conversations in our classrooms.

RSVP/Abstracts: https://t.co/Od9WtlT5id
🗓️Fri, 3/26
🕘9:00am

@Jaden_Malcolm @BlackStudiesUT

[Black Graduate Student Association at UT Austin @UTexasBGSA]

BGSA + IUPRA Professional Development Fund Application: https://t.co/J0gEqJE5Ny

BGSA +IUPRA Scholar Activism Award Application: https://t.co/n9uzrbRxHp

[Black Graduate Student Association at UT Austin @UTexasBGSA]

BGSA and @IUPRA have partnered to support Black graduate Students at UT!

Scholar-activism Fellowship+Professional Development Fund NOW OPEN!!
Apply at https://t.co/jeeLUFOYRd

[Black Graduate Student Association at UT Austin @UTexasBGSA]

Join BGSA and GUM (Graduates for Underrepresented Minorities) on November 19th at 6pm for our last General Body Meeting of the semester! We will be hosting Dr. Tyrone Porter and his talk on "Cultural Tax: The Cost of Being the Only or the Few"

[Black Graduate Student Association at UT Austin @UTexasBGSA]

Join us tonight for our first General Body Meeting of the semester, with Guest Speaker Dr. Ryan Sutton. We have also invited the UT Diversity and Inclusion Coalition to introduce themselves to BGSA!

We invite you to come destress and recenter.

Zoom link in bio.

#UTexasBGSA

[Black Graduate Student Association at UT Austin @UTexasBGSA]

Meet Shaina Hall, BGSA Co-President

Name: Shaina Hall
Year: 2nd Year PhD
Major: Counseling Psychology 
Research Interests: Black Feminism, Anxiety, Coping, Resilience, and Academic Attitudes

[Black Graduate Student Association at UT Austin @UTexasBGSA]

Meet Lorraine Scott, BGSA Co-President

Name: Lorraine Scott
Year: 2nd Year PhD
Major: Human Development and Family Sciences
Research Interests: Racial Socialization, Intersectional Black Racial Stress and Health Outcomes, Intragroup Marginalization

[Black Graduate Student Association at UT Austin @UTexasBGSA]

Meet André Fuqua, BGSA Vice President

Name: André Fuqua
Year: 2nd Year PhD
Major: Civil Engineering 
Research Interests: Sustainable Infrastructure Materials, Compressed Earth Construction, Water Equity

[Black Graduate Student Association at UT Austin @UTexasBGSA]

Meet Myya Singletary, BGSA Community Outreach Chair

Name: Myya Singletary 
Year: 2nd Year PhD
Major: Counseling Psychology 
Research Interests: Gendered Racial Microaggressions and Interventions, Identity Development, Race Related Stressors, and Multicultural Competence

[Black Graduate Student Association at UT Austin @UTexasBGSA]

Meet Chloe White, BGSA Academic Chair

Name: Chloe White
Year: 2nd Year Master's
Major: Education Policy and Planning
Research Interests: Trauma Informed Care utilized as Pedagogy

[Black Graduate Student Association at UT Austin @UTexasBGSA]

Meet Mike Yarbrough, BGSA Treasurer

Name: Mike Yarbrough
Year: 1st Year PhD
Major: Sociology
Research Interests: Law, crime, incarceration, reentry and recidivism -- at the moment, specifically focused on correctional education programs

[Black Graduate Student Association at UT Austin @UTexasBGSA]

Meet Deidra Ward, BGSA Social Chair

Name: Deidra Ward
Year: 2nd Year PhD
Major: Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, Nanotechnology, and Cancer Therapeutics