From left: Gavin Hug (SMG' 19), Catherine Huynh (CAS'19), Sarah Voorhees, Health and Prevention Educators, Sexual assault response and Prevention Center, and Raul Fernandez, Associate Director of Student Activities participate in a Privilege Walk organized by BU's Asian Student Union. The exercise encourages participants to become critical of their personal privileges associated with race. The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate how social identifiers that are out of participants’ control have affected their privilege and the rights of members of their community. Photo by Chenyao Xu (COM’17)

November 23, 2015

Privilege Walk

Asian Student Union Privilege Walk: Participants, among them Catherine Huynh (CAS’19) (left) and Sarah Voorhees, a SARP health and prevention educator, are encouraged to think about race and how social identifiers out of their control affect community members’ rights and privileges. Photo by Chenyao Xu (COM’17)

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