<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">UCR Black Graduate Student Association</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:officialblackgsaucr@gmail.com">officialblackgsaucr@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM<br>Subject: Resources to Support Black Graduate Students in Your Department<br>To: <br>Cc:  <<a href="mailto:rfarr011@ucr.edu">rfarr011@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span id="m_-398289725357466181gmail-docs-internal-guid-7cdd8e02-7fff-bd22-f0d7-9166c6ea86e5"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Hi!  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">I hope this message finds you well. My name is Re’Nyqua Farrington, and I’m reaching out on behalf of the Black Graduate Student Association (BLK GSA) at UCR. As part of our mission to support Black graduate students across campus, we’re sharing a few resources that we hope will be helpful to you and your department.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Attached to this email, you’ll find:</span></p><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">BLK GSA Fall Quarter Events</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> – A flyer outlining our upcoming events which includes our </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">General Meetings </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">where students can connect with each other and build community and our </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Research Kickbacks </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">where students can work in space to give and get feedback for ongoing research.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">BLK GSA Mentorship Program Flyer</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> – A flyer outlining our mentorship program, which connects first and second-year Black graduate students with more advanced Black graduate students.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We’d greatly appreciate it if you could share these materials with the graduate students in your department.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Additionally, we welcome opportunities to partner with departments on programming or student support initiatives. If your department is working on ways to enhance support for Black students, BLK GSA would be glad to collaborate or provide input.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Thank you for helping us create a more connected and inclusive graduate community. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions or ideas.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Warm regards,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br>Re'Nyqua Farrington | BLK GSA President</span></p></span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">Email: <u><a href="mailto:officialblackgsaucr@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">officialblackgsaucr@gmail.com</a></u></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><i>“Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.”</i></font></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">-Audre Lorde</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</div></div>