bridges Multicultural Resource Center

Join us as we celebrate to our incredible mentor and bridges fairy godmother, Lien! 🌟✨🧚🏼 Come together for a beautiful night of community and gratitude as we honor DR. LKT’s legacy and journey with bridges since 2017. 💐

📆 Date: Friday, August 30
⏰ Time: 3:00 - 7:00 PM
📍Location: MLK East Pauley Ballroom
👥 Invitees: bridges Alum + current bridges students!

✨🌷RSVP TODAY @ tinyurl.com/bridgesStars🌷✨

💜🌟 SIGN UP AS A VOLUNTEER TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE MAGIC @ tinyurl.com/LFWVolunteers 🌟💜

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU🫵🏽 THERE! 🌠🪴

🌺bridges MRC still has open positions for our 24-25 board 🌺

We are accepting applications for our Retention, Transfer Recruitment, Transfer Retention, Outreach, Public Relations, and Gender and Sexuality Director positions! + We’re looking for equity-minded student leaders who are passionate about supporting our 7 student-led Recruitment and Retention Centers and building multicultural solidarity.🌱

If you want to learn more about our positions, visit : tinyurl.com/bstaffappinfo

Applications are due on Sunday, August 11th @ 11:59PM

🔗Apply here: tinyurl.com/bstaff24-25

Note: there is a mandatory August TRAIN onboarding session upon receiving a staff offer.

For any questions, feel free to email [email protected]🤭

Interested in Graduate School?!?!

Join us for our Grad School Series! Our bGST 24 cohort will explore various aspects with respect tot their field of interest, including admissions, finances, culture,  campuses and city life.

We hope to demystify grad school by providing knowledge through the perspective of first-gen, low-income, students of color.

Grad Schools will include: Harvard, Yale, NYU and more!

RSVP: tinyurl.com/bGSTSeries24

Hello besties!😛😛

The bridges coalition is excited to invite you to join us for our bridges RRR Week: Study Jams events!🫵🏽🫵🏽

Whether you’re in your academic weapon era or you’re just tryna save the semester, we want to support our BIPOC-identifying students by providing y’all with a comfortable place to study, among community! To esnure that we are tending to your holistic needs, we will also be providing lunch, dinner and free wellness products for attendees. 🤩🤩

All events will be taking place in MLK Student Union 3rd Floor, Pauley Ballroom, and the schedule for the week is as follows:
Mon, April 29th 11am - 7pm
Tues, April 30th 11am - 7pm
Wed, May 1st 11am - 7pm
Thurs, May 2nd 11am - 7pm

Make sure to RSVP at tinyurl.com/SP24bridgesSJ . We will only be able to serve students who RSVP.

If any questions arise, feel free to direct them to [email protected].

Hi community, with Transfer Weekend quickly approaching we are in need of volunteers! 🌅🌟

If you are looking to support our Transfer Students next weekend please fill out our volunteer form by Wednesday, May 1st. We will be following up with roles and delegations via email. Come join us for free food, good vibes and celebrations. Please note all volunteers will receive a small token of appreciation during our closing ceremony 🌅✨☀️

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Community call out 📣✨

Transfer Weekend is right around the corner and we need YOUR support to phone bank‼️Come out and help us call NEWLY admitted community college students to invite them to come to Transfer Weekend 💙💛🧸. In partnership with , we will be calling over 2000 students so we need all hands on deck 🤭🫣🫡🤝🏽. Yummy food will be provided everyday 🍴.

Transfer Weekend is a FREE 3-day, 2-night program for transfer students to who have been newly admitted to UC Berkeley and identify as first-generation, low-income, Black, Indigenous, and Person of Color.

Transfer Weekend students experience campus life at Cal and are engaged and empowered through multicultural programs, events, and interactions with current UC Berkeley undergraduate students.

Hello community🫶🏽🫶🏽

The bridges Coalition is so excited to invite you to our Spring semester, 3-day Boost Week! The theme of our events will be pajama party, so make sure to bring the chillest vibes while we engage in community wellness events🤭🤞🏽

All events are open to the multicultural community at Cal (Black, Indigenous and peoples of color) and are an opportunity for y’all to de-stress among other BIPOC students, through social, mindfulness, and self care activities.🧖🏽‍♀️

Boost Week will take place on: Tuesday, March 5th from 7-8:30PM + Wednesday, March 6th from 7-9PM + Thursday, March 7th from 7-9PM.

Make sure to RSVP at tinyurl.com/SP24BoostWeek to attend and receive information regarding event locations!🌺🌿

Hi Community + Happy Spring🌺🍀

bridges MRC is excited to announce that our fellowship application is now open! Through this fellowship experience, you will have the opportunity to work alongside our bridges directors to maintain the essence of our center and the programs/resources that we offer!

The bridges MRC fellowship class is open to current UC Berkeley students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or peoples of color. This fellowship aims to give students the opportunity to support first generation, low income, students of color through Recruitment and Retention services.

The bridges MRC fellowship can be taken for up to 2 units and meets the Ethnic Studies field work requirement.

Applications are due Friday, February 2nd at 11:59pm! Please contact [email protected] with any questions regarding this opportunity.

Hello Community!!

We heard that school was beating you up and that you didn’t get the chance to attend an infosession for our bridges Graduate School Tour (bGST) program!😱😱

Lucky for you, we’ll be providing a final infosession for bGST to give y’all the opportunity to learn about the program and meet the mandatory infosession attendance requirement for the application! This will be y’all’s last chance to attend an infosession, in order to apply to the program by Tues, January 2nd! 🫵🏼🤯

Our infosession will go over the program and application process. If interested, join us on:

Thursday, December 28th from 5 - 6pm via zoom.

For the zoom information, RSVP at: tinyurl.com/bGST24! Make sure to check your spam folder for further communications from us about bGST! 🙏🏼🙏🏼

We hope to see you there!

**For general information about the program, participant expectations, and financial accomodations for the trip, please see our most recent post about our past bGST infosessions.**

Hey community 🫶

Here are some of the professors that we have for our upcoming ‘Building bridges: Cross-Generational Dialogue ✨’

Come join us on November 30th, 2023 from 6-8pm to participate in a multi-generational conversation with current UC Berkeley professors on their stories and experiences with political organizing, social movements, and how the political climate has changed over time! ✨✨

This event is a collaboration of .reach and Dinner is provided! RSVP at the link in our bio.

Location is given after you RSVP ‼️

Hello community!❄️☃️🌨️🐰

The bridges coalition is excited to welcome you all to our semesterly bridges RRR Week: Study Jams events!🗣️🗣️

We recognize that, during finals season, it can be hard to find places to study and to remember to keep up with our basic needs. So, our Study Jams are meant to provide our BIPOC-identifying students with a comfortable place to study, among community!

Additionally, to make sure y’all remember to nourish your bodies during this time, we will be providing lunch and dinner for attendees. 🫵🏽🤨

All events will be taking place in MLK Student Union 3rd Floor, Pauley Ballroom, and the schedule for the week is as follows:
Tues, Dec 5th 11am - 7pm
Wed, Dec 6th 11am - 7pm
Thurs, Dec 7th 11am - 7pm
Fri, Dec 8th 11am - 7pm

Make sure to RSVP at tinyurl.com/F23bridgesSJ. We will only be letting in students who RSVP‼️

Hello community 🫰!

the bridges coalition, we are so excited to host and invite the community out to “Building bridges: Cross-Generational Dialogues.” ⭐️

Come join us on November 30th, 2023 from 6-8pm to participate in a multi-generational conversation with current UC Berkeley professors on their stories and experiences with political organizing, social movements, and how the political climate has changed over time! ✨✨

This event is a collaboration of .reach and Dinner is provided! RSVP at the link in our bio.

Some professors who will be a part of this this event are Dr. Tsuchitani and Professor Albazian!

Location is given after you RSVP ‼️

Hi community!!

Interested in graduate school on the East Coast? We are excited to announce our upcoming program: bridges Graduate School Tour (bGST)!

bGST is an opportunity for first gen, low-income UC Berkeley students of color to fly to the East Coast to tour university campuses, gain insight into their interested field of study, and bring that knowledge back to the general community. In this info-session, we will dive into what the application process and what the the program will entail.

We have three opportunities to learn more about the program and application process (one virtual option and two in-person). Your attendance at one of our infosessions is required for your application to be reviewed.

💫 Tuesday, 11/28 from 7 - 8 PM in person
💫 Friday, 12/1 from 6 - 7 PM in person
🕺 Saturday, 12/2 from 11 AM - 12 PM on Zoom

Please RSVP for the location of our in-person infosessions at http://tinyurl.com/bGST24 We hope to see you there! 🪐

This week in our coalition 📩

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 13-19

Hello everyone 🕺. We hope you are having a fantastic Monday so far and enjoyed or boost week that we hosted last week. This week in our coalition we have a variety of self care and study jams events hosted by .reach and 😻. Our coalition is also standing in solidarity with Palestine including providing food for phone banking with and .reach second GBM focusing on solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸. UC apps are also due soon for those applying and will be hosing a college workshopping day 🧡.

-in collaboration with bridges PR committee-

With love and solidarity,
bridges

Hi community 🫶

The bridges Coalition is excited to announce that we will be hosting Transfer Empowerment Day on November 17th, 2023 from 11 am to 2:30 pm🎉. It is a FREE 1-Day Conference for current community college students to help support them in their UC application process 🎓. Get ready for presentations that range from covering PIQ’s, IGETC certification and a student panel from current Berkeley Transfer students‼️. The event is open to current community college students that identify as first generation, low income BIPOC students 🤎.

RSVP through the link in our bio ✨ or at
tinyurl.com/TED23RSVP

Hi Community! 🫶

The bridges Coalition is so excited to invite y’all to our 3 day Boost Week 🤩! Throughout this week, we will be sharing more details about the various events happening on each day 🌱🌊🔥.

This event is open to the multicultural community (Black, Indigenous, and peoples of color) and is an opportunity for y’all to destress among each other, through social, crafting/art, and mindfulness activities 😮‍💨.

Boost Week will take place on Tuesday, November 7th from 6-8pm + Wednesday, November 8th from 7-8:30pm + Thursday, November 9th from 7-8:30pm. Make sure to RSVP at : tinyurl.com/F23BoostWeek or through the link in our bio ✨. We will send the locations for each event to RSVPs!

This week in our coalition 📩

WEEK OF OCTOBER 23-29 👻

Hello community!!! This week in our coalition we have so many events for y’all 🫶. Lots of events for Halloween themes like .reach’s spooky cookie🍪 decorating and ‘s Spooky Perreo! There are a variety of scholarships that are now available from and 🤑. Those are just some of the events for this week, swipe through all the slides to see the events we have this week 🤩.

-in collaboration with bridges PR Committee-

With love and solidarity,
bridges

THIS WEEK IN OUR COALITION 📩

Week of October 9-15th 🎃

We hope that everyone is having a great Indigenous Peoples’ Day so far🫶! This week in our coalition we have some really cool events like .reach first transfer programming watching an amazing movie🥯, application for the Bay Area College Tour for both attendees and volunteers will be closing this week🌉!

-in collaboration with bridges PR committee-

With love and solidarity,
bridges

Introducing our…
💙RETENTION DIRECTOR🤎

Hi everyone! My name is Kristal Roman (she/her/ella), and I am this year’s bridges Retention Director. In my role, I work to provide our students with resources that are relevant to their identities as first generation, low income, Black, Indigenous and peoples of color. This includes working alongside the RRCs to share/create resources and programs that deal with aspects of academic, social, wellness, and professional retention to ensure that our students are supported in their journeys of navigating higher education until completion. 🕺🏽🕺🏽

I joined the bridges coalition my first year at Berkeley, after being a Cal Week (virtual SW) participant and attending a virtual Familia Orientation (Latine orientation event through Raíces and the CLSD). I was really interested in seeking community among other students of color through my college experience, and bridges made me feel secure that I could find that at Cal. My first two years I interned and worked as a coordinator for Raíces doing Retention services, and I decided to make the transition to bridges because I wanted to learn more about the Retention-specific issues that varying communities of color encounter in higher education and learn how to better advocate for and meet these needs.

Beyond bridges, I’m currently a third year double majoring in Political Science (🤬) and Ethnic Studies and minoring in Education. I’m from the Central Coast, and I spend most of my time watching reality tv shows, listening to music, instigating, and being a hater. Always down to grab a girly little drink or a silly treat, pero tell me in advance because I'm trying to be a studious foo this year. 🤭🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♀️

Introducing our…
🧡 PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR 💙

Hii everyone! My name is Thao and I will be serving as the bridges 23-24 Public Relations Director 🥳. I’m a fourth year majoring in Sociology with a minor in political economy 📚. I’m also a transfer student from De Anza Community College down in South Bay.

In high school when I was a Junior I participated in .reach ‘s ShadowNite which really lead to me seriously think about my pathway into higher education (outreach rlly does work y’all 😩) . When I came to Berkeley I became a transfer intern for REACH! And later in the spring semester became a bridges fellow which lead to me being apart of bridges staff 🫶🏼.

Some of my current hobbies are doing nails 💅🏼, going to taco Tuesdays, and watching young Sheldon ( even tho I just finished)

💙bridges Staff Apps are now open for the 23-24 school year 💙

We are opening our 2023-2024 Staff applications for our 6 positions:
1. Internal Executive Director
2. Wellness Director
3. Transfer Recruitment Director
4. K12 Recruitment Director
5. Outreach Director
6. Gender and Sexuality Director

‼️Applications are due on Sunday, October 1st at 11:59 PM PST‼️

📩 Apply through the link in our bio or on tinyurl.com/bridges-staffapp

THIS WEEK IN OUR COALITION 📩

Week of September 18-24th, 2023 🍁

This week in our bridges coalition we have a lot of exciting events and programming that is happening! Some events includes the return of ’s Welcome B(l)ack BBQ, ’s first transfer social of the year, ’s first general body meeting where there will be Jeopardy, and many of our RRCs will be having our first session of fellowship class!

With love and solidarity,
bridges

🤎 We are excited to announce the opening of our fellowship application for the fall of 2023! 🤎

The bridges MRC fellowship class is open to current UC Berkeley students who identify as BIPOC and/or Latinx. This fellowship is meant to give students the opportunity to support first generation, low income, students of color through Recruitment and Retention services.

In this role as a fellow, you will be paired with one of our seven current bridges directors and work collaboratively on creating community-informed programs or aiding in the logistical aspects of program planning. This is the perfect opportunity for anyone that would like to be involved with bridges to gain experience in student organizing and student leadership‼️

If you are interested in taking the course for units, it falls within the Ethnic Studies 197 and meets the Ethnic Studies field work requirement. You can take the class from 1-3 units 🤩. The class will also be weekly on Wednesdays from 6:30 - 8pm.

‼️APPLICATIONS ARE DUE AT SEPTEMBER 9TH AT 11:59‼️

If you have any questions, please contact the fellowship facilitator, our Retention Director Kristal, at [email protected]

✨CONNECTEDNESS: Working together, bond us together.✨

Last week we hosted our bridges semesterly TRAIN for the fall of 2023 🥳. TRAIN=Transitions, Resources, Addressing Internal Needs.

Our bridges student leaders from all 7 Recruitment and Retention Centers (RRCs) gathered together for a three-day learning and engagement retreat to prepare for the upcoming year to support low income, first generation, students of color.






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