One of the organizations that has had a lot of influence on my life is the Afrikan Student Union here at UCLA. Currently, I serve as ASU's Administrative Coordinator and my job is to make sure that any logistical and tedious tasks are taken care of. In addition, I hold staff members accountable to the task that have been set forth in our spaces. Simply, ASU serves as the unifying voice for all Afrikan-identified students here on the campus and in the Los Angeles community. Some of the programs that ASU does have are Students Heightening Academic Performance through Education (SHAPE), Academic Supports Program, and Afrikan Education Project.
SHAPE is a student-initiated and student run outreach program, created to have K-12 African American students matriculate into institutions of higher education, with a focus on holistic development. SHAPE offers tutoring, peer advising, mentorship and various workshops to ensure African American numbers can ultimately increase on the collegiate level.
ASP is the student-initiated and student-run retention program designed to guide Black/African students to a successful college experience and graduation from UCLA. ASP also focuses on helping students with personal management skills, major choices, goal settings, class planning, academic difficulty, readmission work, and much more.
However, one of my favorite projects of them all is the Afrikan Education Project that is a tutoring/mentoring program that seeks to enhance the lives and academic scores of the children who reside at New Wilmington Arms in Compton, CA through African empowerment and education and basic tutoring. All of these different projects are ways to reach out into our Afrikan-identified communities and helping to develop our own people so that we can develop and empower ourselves.
If you are interested in getting involved in any of the projects that were mentioned above, then make sure to check out www.blackbruins.org.
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