Thank you so much to Paul Navarro and Aaron Ver from Perkins Coie who came to campus last week and gave our 1Ls some essential tips on networking as students of color! Paul and Aaron gave us candid advice and perspectives on what students of color need to do differently in order to succeed in a realm that is brand new for most of us. We had a great time eating pupusas and asking questions about how to increasing our connections with firm folks at upcoming networking events!
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.
