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We Are All Marquette: Building networks — the Minority Scholar Mentorship Program

By Saul Lopez, graduate assistant in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion A newly formed student organization aims to help underrepresented students build their professional networks: The Minority Scholars Mentoring Program (MSMP). Led by Kaitlin Johnstone and Sunitha Doreivelu, seniors in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, MSMP aims to connect students of […]

We Are All Marquette: The voices we don’t hear – immigration stories captured through art

By Saul Lopez, graduate assistant in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion A junior in the Klingler College of Arts & Sciences and a recipient of Marquette University’s Center for Peacemaking Fellowship, Johnny Irias Puerto can be found talking to the students floating around the second floor of the AMU on a September afternoon. […]

OMC colleague chosen for national diversity leadership academy

Dwayne Burtin, web producer in the Office of Marketing and Communication, has been named a member of the 2019 Leadership Academy for Diversity in Digital Media, a partnership between Poynter Institute and The Washington Post. The academy recognizes pioneers in the field of digital media from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds who have demonstrated an aptitude for […]

We Are All Marquette: Chante Parker breaks barrier as School of Dentistry’s first African American class president

By Saul Lopez, graduate assistant in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion The Marquette University School of Dentistry is home to nearly 400 students — Chante Parker now has the unique privilege of serving nearly half of them as the second-year class president. She is the first African American to hold the distinction. An […]

We Are All Marquette: Beyond reporting

In 2016 when Melissa Evans, Comm ’13, was working as a health reporter for the Texas Tribune, she was asked to staff the state legislative session. Evans was eager to hear top leaders respond to a report that had recently come out about poor maternal healthcare in Texas. According to the report, pregnant women and […]

Dr. Marla Delgado-Guerrero featured on list of Wisconsin’s most powerful Latinos

Dr. Marla Delgado-Guerrero, mental health counselor and diversity coordinator in the Counseling Center, has been named one of the most powerful Latinos in the state. Delgado-Guerrero’s work has earned her a spot on the Si Se Puede 2019: Wisconsin’s 34 most powerful Latinos list. The list, created annually since 2015 by nonprofit online news outlet […]

We Are All Marquette: How one student uses fashion to share her Nigerian roots and spread love to all cultures

Student Oluwapelumi Oguntade created “OLUOMO WORLDWIDE,” a fashion brand through which she seeks to spread love to all cultures. A sophomore majoring in economics, Oguntade plans to expand her business using the prize money she received for winning first place in Social Innovation through the Brewed Ideas Challenge last spring. Oguntade is originally from Nigeria […]

We Are All Marquette: Trailblazing by example

Edith Hudson in December 2018 became the university’s new police chief. Hudson has broken several glass ceilings during her 25-year career — as field supervisor in the Milwaukee Police Department’s Tactical Enforcement Unit, as the department’s assistant chief, and now as MUPD chief. Even so, she says she’s never felt like a trailblazer. “I didn’t […]

We Are All Marquette: Empowered lifting 

When Alyssa Duetsch, a senior in the Diederich College of Communication and an intern in the Office of Marketing and Communication, started working on a video project about Marquette’s power lifting team, she had no idea how much the team would impact her nor the larger impact the team is leaving on the university and […]