Elon University’s Black Student Union is hosting the Free Your Mind event tonight at 7:30 p.m. in McKinnon Hall at the Moseley Center. The event is an opportunity for students, faculty and staff to address social, political and mental issues, as well as express changes that they hope to see in the future.
Junior Nyah Britt, vice president of community outreach and activism at BSU, said the event represents a time of debrief for the Elon community in a post-COVID-19 world.
“The goal of the Free Your Mind event is to get things off of people’s chest, to connect people with resources to deal with these things and to also look for a hopeful eye in figuring out what change we want to see in our community at Elon and even in the world,” Britt said.
Britt said she hopes the event will also allow students, faculty and staff to reflect upon efforts of diversity, equity and inclusion across campus — in addition to how students and the university can work together to improve.
Members of the Student Government Association will be in attendance at the event as well. Britt is hopeful that the event will encourage senators to bring conversations from the event to SGA meetings and create legislation that is centered around DEI.
“I’m just hoping that with SGA being present, them hearing these things, they can take these things and figure out ways to start initiatives that can move us in a better direction when it comes to diversity on campus,” Britt said.
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