UMOJA
UMOJA is a student-initiated and student-run retention program dedicated to keeping African/Black identified students here at UC Santa Cruz.
Meaning “Unity” in Swahili, UMOJA’s goal is to have them graduate with having felt a sense of support and encouragement from other students, faculty, and their community.
We aim to address the needs of our community in hopes to hold accountable any and all programs/centers that fail to support our community by making sure that we receive what we deserve for a socially and academically balanced life here at UCSC.
We also aim to help unite and engage our community on different levels of being in college so that they feel the need to keep themselves and our community present at UCSC. Because without unity there is no community.
UMOJA Lead Retention Coordinator
Khalia Fitzhugh-Crenshaw
Second year, Robotics Engineering + Electrical Engineering (she/her)
As a retention coordinator, I am working to provide African Black and Caribbean (ABC) students with the resources and support they need to make it to graduation in the face of systemic inequities meant to make sure they never cross the graduation stage. I want to help make the path to graduation as easy and seamless as it can be through making sure that students are thriving academically, socially, culturally, physically and mentally. I like to read fiction books and I like to bake and watch comedy movies for fun.
Connect with UMOJA
✉️ E-mail: ucsantacruz.umoja@gmail.com
📸 Instagram: @umoja.ucsc
🔗 Linktree: linktr.ee/umojaucsc