Group of 100+ alumni create mentorship program advocating for Asian students
Courtesy of Carina Lui
To strengthen the connection between alumni and students, SU alumni created SU Asian Pacific Islander American Plus. The collective currently has about 120 who serve as advocates for current SU students.
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Syracuse University alumna Carina Lui landed her first two architecture internships through connections from her high school. But many of her SU peers especially students of color were unable to get jobs because they lacked those connections, causing them to leave the architecture field.
“If we had mentors in the industry already who can vouch for us and get our foot in the door, we would not be losing that many architects of color,” said Lui, who graduated from SU in 2008. “That’s a huge problem in my industry today: we don’t have representation.”