Diversity Advisory Councils

Diversity Advisory Committee

The Diversity Advisory Committee (DAC) was designed to provide ongoing support for the entire school community around issues of diversity and multiculturalism. It is comprised of administrators, faculty, staff, parents, students and alums. Quarterly meetings serve as a forum to help create and sustain diversity initiatives school wide.
The group recently added a “Dinner and Documentary” event which is co-sponsored  with the Student Diversity Leadership Council. One evening each semester the school community is invited to enjoy pizza, view a film on a topic of cultural or socio/political significance and participate in a student-led discussion afterwards.

The Student Diversity Leadership Council (SDLC)

The Student Diversity Leadership Council is comprised of 14 students (grades 10 through 12) and serves as a campus resource and support network for the school community. Council members are primarily initiators and facilitators of constructive discourse and programming around diversity themes and have opportunities to collaborate with faculty, administrators and students regarding curriculum, guest speakers, and other school related events.

SDLC aims to help connect school community strands such as assembly dialogue, student club initiatives and library resources around multiculturalism, spirituality/faith, and other global, social-political issues under the diversity umbrella as these topics relate to our lives as individuals, members of an academic centered community and the greater world. By connecting initiatives and voices on campus, SDLC intends to generate broader student participation, inclusion and understanding.

Ongoing events sponsored by the SDLC include U.N.I.T.Y C.A.F.É.S. (Understanding Nationality Individuality Tolerance and Youth/Cultural Awareness for Everyone) which serve as a coffeehouse forum for guest speakers, drumming circles, educational films and discussions, music and poetry events. Similar to our school’s other student councils, SDLC members are chosen after an extensive application and interview process. Additionally, certain members are chosen each year to attend the Student Diversity Leadership Conference sponsored by the National Association of Independent Schools which each year hosts more than 1,000 independent school students from around the nation.