SomosVU
About
SomosVU calls the community into conversation and emphasizes the values of connection, inclusion, and celebration. SomosVU addresses the need for the visibility of Latinx presence, influence and representation on campus while honoring the accomplishments of Latinx leaders and groups. SomosVU encourages faculty-student mentor relationships, as well as solidarity among allies, to create opportunities to celebrate and elevate their Latinx peers. SomosVU charges all of us to build an inclusive Latinx community at Vanderbilt University.
Partner Departments and Organizations
- Latino and Latina Studies
- Student Center for Social Justice and Identity
- Center for Latin American Studies
- Association of Latin American Students
- AMIGOS
- Latino Medical Student Organization
- Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science
- Latinx Seminarians
Events and Programming
Reading by Daisy Hernández
Thursday, February 20, 2020 | 7 p.m. | Buttrick 101
Daisy Hernández is the author of the award-winning memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed and coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. The former editor of ColorLines magazine, she has reported for The Atlantic, The New York Times and Slate, and she has written for NPR’s All Things Considered and CodeSwitch. Her essays and fiction have appeared in Aster(ix), Bellingham Review, Brevity, Dogwood, Fourth Genre, Gulf Coast, Juked and Rumpus among other journals. A contributing editor for the Buddhist magazine Tricycle, Hernández is an Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing Program at Miami University in Ohio, and she is the Vanderbilt Visiting Writer in Nonfiction for the Spring 2020 semester.
Latinx Graduates Recognition Ceremony
Thursday, May 7 | 1 to 3 p.m. | Student Life Center Ballroom
The Latinx Graduates Celebration is a recognition ceremony held once a year by the Latinx community at Vanderbilt to celebrate the achievements and successes of all graduating Latinx students. The ceremony serves as a unique space for students to pay homenaje to family, friends, faculty, staff and administrators who have supported their journeys. With food, music, graduation stoles, guest speakers, student awards and photo opportunities, we invite all to join us in this fun and family-oriented celebration.
Profiles
Campus Resources
- Latino and Latina Studies
- Student Center for Social Justice and Identity
- Center for Latin American Studies
- Latin American Public Opinion Project
- Department of Spanish and Portuguese
- Vanderbilt Divinity School Hispanic Summer Program
- Afro-Hispanic Review
Student Organizations
- Latin American and Caribbean Student Association
- Association of Latin American Students
- AMIGOS
- Latino Medical Student Organization
- Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science
- Latinx Seminarians
- Owen Latin Business Association
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