Leadership Coursework
LEAD 1000
LEAD 1000 provided the foundations to leadership theory. In this course, I learned about introversion and extroversion, and acculturation. We had discussions about empathy, inclusion, and primal leadership. It was the space where I was not only asked to confront institutional challenges head-on but also asked the age-old question: Now What? The class pushed me to engage in introspection, to think about the person I wanted to be.
Click here to view a snippet of my final paper for this course, where I reflected upon my time in the class and my first semester as a whole.
EDUC 2410
This class was an exploration of social injustices: racism, sexism, ableism, ageism, heterosexism, class, and privilege. We defined not only what those social injustices were, but how intersectionality played a role as well. This course provided me with the language to effectively address the systemic oppression I was observing around me in way that never was able to do before.
Click here to view my presentation defining social injustices, exploring those injustices via various media, and proposing changes to said media depictions,
Picture credit: Krishna Pattisapu
EDUC 2910*
I participated in this practicum as both a student and a peer mentor. We worked in pairs to continue working through social injustices and engaging with groups in the Boulder area to tackle them. Each of us was tasked with reaching an audience with the purpose to educate or make a change around our respective topics.
Click here to view the Instagram infographic a fellow MLScholar and I created in our exploration of religious oppression and representation.
INVS 3100
In this course, we explored various leadership styles: transformational, cross-cultural, servant, and transactional, and used them to understand our immediate environment and the world around us. We discussed Latino/Chicano issues via Los Seis de Boulder and African American issues through a sports/pop culture lens. We talked about WOC, the LGBTQ+ community, and Asian American Leadership. In this course, I felt seen and was gifted the work of Black feminist Dr. Brittney Cooper, which I am forever grateful for.
Click here to view the paper I wrote about William Rhoden's book, Forty Million Dollar Slave, as it applies to multicultural leadership, our campus culture, and the world.
Picture credit: Krishna Pattisapu
LEAD 4000
This course is where everything comes together, where theory and the praxis meet, and each of us is asked to define what leadership means. We formed groups to take a deep dive into wicked problems each of us cared about: climate change, education inequities, gun violence, and drug use/mental health. We learned about inclusive leadership, identity, courage. My interactions with the instructor, Elaina Verveer, have been especially impactful because she truly loves what she does and she believes that each of us is equipped with the means to be great leaders, even when we don't see it in ourselves.
Picture credit: Karl Todd