The mentorship-based initiative creates student research opportunities and serves as a model for diversifying the academic pipeline
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From left: Kylie Paramore, Kamry Parks, Amora Haynes, Vivica Rush, who were in the first cohort of UCLA Bunche Fellows. Jessica Wolf |
February 25, 2021
Like virtually everyone, Audrey Devost’s first semester at college was a lifechanger. As a transracial adoptee who grew up in Vermont with white parents and another adopted multi-racial sibling, going to a historically Black college and university in Washington, D.C., exposed her to a world she had never really experienced.
“My friends and family would tell you, after my first semester at Howard University, I drastically changed,” she said. “But the way that it changed me going from Vermont, which is one of the whitest states in the U.S., to a historically Black university, was a very beautiful thing for my racial identity.”