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Cross-Affinity Mixer

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In La Raza we pride ourselves on fostering the Latinx community on campus, but we are also all about strengthening our relationships with our other POC peers. This weekend La Raza hosted a cross-affinity mixer along with the Law Students of African Descent, Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, and Native American Law Students Associations at Berkeley Law! One of our lovely 1Ls hosted us in his home for a mixer before we all headed out to a club in Oakland. It was a great night of dancing, fun, and meeting friends in other groups.

Native Land Acknowledgement


We take a moment to recognize that Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin) (Hoo-Choon), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo (Cho-Chen-yo) speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the historic and sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma (Muh-wek-muh) Ohlone Tribe and other familial descendants of the Verona Band.

We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has benefited, and continues to benefit, from the use and occupation of this land since the institution's founding in 1868. Consistent with our values of community and diversity, we have a responsibility to acknowledge and make visible the university's relationship to Native peoples. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold the University of California, Berkeley more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.