Do you know who the Kenyon Discrimination Advisors are? Whether you do or not, HCK would like to present its latest featured series: Get to Know Your Discrimination Advisors! In this series, we will feature individual articles on each DA to help you get familiar with their faces and what they do! So, make sure you stay tuned and check in each week to get to know a different DA!
So, what does a DA do, exactly? The DAs are a group of students on campus that any Kenyon student can use as a resource, whether they need to speak with someone about any discrimination-related issue on campus, propose ideas or ask questions. They are a great group of students you can confide in, but if you don’t feel comfortable talking face-to-face, you can also report incidents of bias or discrimination anonymously at www.kenyon.edu/equalopportunity.
With that  said, let’s check out this week’s DA, Caitlin Ramirez!
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Year: Senior
Major: Sociology with a concentration in Latin Studies
HCK: Why did you choose to become a DA?
CR: This is a unique and involved way to become better connected to our community and that is what drew me in. Discrimination is an issue that we have to deal with as a community and I want to help with that dialogue. Kenyon can be a difficult place to feel at home at all times and being a D.A. enables me to be a better resource for those who need their voices to be heard.
What diversity-related issue are you most passionate about?
I’m interested in the experience of minority students like myself concerning race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, and education.
Favorite memory at Kenyon so far?
Organizing an event for Baldemar Velazquez, the president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, to come speak at Kenyon last semester with Professor Román-Odio and fellow classmates for the service portion of our Introduction to Chican Studies class.
What superpower would you want to have?
Teleportation to avoid the inevitable wipeouts on Middle Path during the winter.
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