Multicultural Awareness Peer (MAP) Ambassadors are students who take an active role in educational, cultural, social, and leadership opportunities for students on campus as it pertains to diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice. The overall goal of the program is to promote multicultural awareness that assists with engaging cultures and bridge across difference. Ambassadors are responsible for facilitating and implementing cultural programs, educational workshops, and supporting new student orientation.

Responsibilities:

• Celebrate diverse cultures and help to build community on campus
• Facilitate programs and workshops around social justice issues
• Help to foster an inclusive campus by creating safe and brave spaces

Benefits:

• Gain marketable leadership skills needed to work on a diverse team for future internship and employment opportunities
• Increase your cultural understanding of self and others
• Monthly compensation

Requirements:

• MAP Ambassadors must facilitate at least two programs per semester.
• MAP Ambassadors should complete one program each semester in conjunction with another university department or a student organization.
• MAP Ambassadors are expected to help plan and facilitate at the annual Social Justice Retreat and/or Social Justice Summit.
• MAP Ambassadors should complete other duties necessary.

Compensation:

• MAP Ambassadors, who are NOT eligible for Federal Work Study, will be compensated $100 per month for a maximum of 3 office hours a week. Hours should not exceed a total of 12 hours per month.
• MAP Ambassador, who are qualified for Federal Work Study (FWS) may work up to 20 hours a week. Hours will be contingent on their award letter.
• MAP Ambassadors, who have successfully completed trainings and responsibilities, will be awarded a certificate of completion and letter of recommendation.

• • For more information on the MAP Ambassador program, please contact us at [email protected]

Multicultural Center General Workshops

About the Multicultural Center 
Learn all about the Multicultural Center and what we have to offer the campus.

Allyship 101 
This workshop will help participants explore what it means to be an ally both in word and in action.

Social Justice Jeopardy
This interactive workshop is a beginners workshop for social justice terminology.

Circles of My Multicultural Self 
In this interactive workshop, participants will have the opportunity to better understand their multicultural selves and the multicultural identities of others. Stereotypes are discussed and dismantled through statements that heal and empower us.

Cross the Line
This interactive, activity-based workshop focuses on the personal experiences of participants and examines how our trials and tribulations shape the people we are today. Empathy, connectedness and healing are at the core of this introspective workshop experience.

Off the Wall – A Workshop on Microaggressions
Microaggressions have been defined as brief everyday exchanges, often unintentional and automatic, that send negative messages to individuals because of their group/identity membership (i.e. due to race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, etc.). Participants of this session will examine phrases like “That’s so gay,” “That’s ghetto,” “That’s retarded,” etc., to better understand their harm and identify ways to confront these microaggressions so that we create a more inclusive campus environment.

Power and Privilege
Participants in this interactive, activity-based workshop will be able to define “power” and “privilege,” can identify and examine some of their own privileges, learn from one another through shared personal experiences, and identify ways to use their privilege to dismantle oppression 

If you would like to schedule a workshop, please fill out a workshop submission form by clicking on the link provided: Workshop & Class Presentations.

Social Justice Retreat

The Social Justice Retreat is an opportunity for student to immerse in experiences that focus on building cultural competence and community building. The retreat enhances student’s awareness of social justice issues and equips them with strategies and resources to effectively address and respond to them. By attending the retreat, attendees have an opportunity to build coalitions across cultural barriers, strengthen advocacy, and support the promotion of an equal, equitable campus culture and climate at Georgia State and beyond.

By participating in the Social Justice Leadership Retreat, students will:

• Identify their own multiple intersecting identities, experiences and biases, and how they map on to concepts of privilege, dominance, and oppression.
• Explain how their identities and experiences influence their understanding of leadership.
• Demonstrate an understanding of their role in interrupting bias and prejudice in themselves and their community, and their role in developing strategies to build positive communities.

Tunnel of Oppression

Tunnel of Oppression will be an interactive experience. Participants will walk through different spaces designed to display oppression of marginalized groups. The event will end with a debrief facilitated by the MAP Ambassadors and Multicultural Center Staff.

Summit on Culture

The Multicultural Center collaborates with the Counseling and Testing Center for the annual Summit on Culture (formerly known as the Cultural Competency Summit). In this collaboration, the Multicultural Center will provide students the opportunity to engage in an event that centers diversity, inclusion and social justice concerns. Our goal is to prepare them for global citizenship by fostering cultural humility and providing inclusive leadership development. The Counseling and Testing Center will continue to focus primarily on professional development, specifically addressing multicultural competence in the health and clinical communities. Together, we aim to advance the mission of the university and uphold our commitment to a culture of care.

Solidarity & Social Justice Weeks (Solidarity September/ Social Justice January/ Social Justice Summer)

The Multicultural Center creates opportunities for students, faculty and staff to deepen their understanding of the experiences of others and raise awareness of the individual and collective injustices that confront many in our society. Working from an intersectional and intercultural framework, the entire campus community will be challenged to explore, take action and educate (yourself and others) through a series of events and training focused on shifting conversations of oppression toward a framework that emphasizes solidarity and social justice.