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This Brown center connects students with community engagement opportunities, public service, and social impact work.
What is the Swearer Center?
This session helped us imagine different career paths and learn from people who have already moved through similar spaces.
What is the Career and Alumni Panel?
This is the difference between simply hearing someone’s words and actually trying to understand what they need.
What is active listening?
This asks us to adjust how we show up depending on the situation, people, and needs in the room.
What is expanding your range as a leader?
Meaning of HES
What is Health Equity Scholar?
This site visit helped us think about conflict, repair, accountability, and addressing harm without creating more harm.
What is the Nonviolence Institute?
This helps us build relationships with people who can offer advice, support, opportunities, and perspective.
What is networking?
This should happen after people share concerns, so they know their words did not just disappear into the air.
What is follow-up?
This type of challenge cannot be solved with a quick fix and often requires reflection, discomfort, and change over time.
What is adaptive leadership?
Our retreated was hosted at this outdoor activity
What is URI rope course?
This practice means noticing, appreciating, and naming the support people give to each other.
What is gratitude?
The alumni panel reminded us that relationships can become sources of advice, opportunity, support, and perspective. This is called building your ______.
What is network?
This can help address tension, confusion, or harm before it turns into silence, resentment, or side conversations.
What is a difficult conversation?
This process helps rebuild trust after conflict by naming what happened, taking responsibility, and moving toward something better.
What is repair?
The new incoming cohort number ---
What is 6?
These require communication, boundaries, trust, and clarity about roles.
What are teams and partnerships?
This skill helps people share ideas clearly, understand their audience, and communicate with purpose.
What is public speaking?
This phrase sounds supportive, but without next steps, it can feel incomplete: “Thank you for your ______.”
What is vulnerability?
This approach begins with listening to people closest to the problem and treating lived experience as knowledge.
What is bottom-up research?
These are the pathways to become an HES member
What is HBCU, HSI, RI scholar, Rural Health, Community College?
This topic reminds us that people bring different experiences, identities, and expectations into a group.
What is identity and team dynamics?
This is not just an icebreaker. It is built through trust, consistency, and shared responsibility.
What is team building?
A group keeps saying, “We hear you,” but nothing changes. This is the missing piece.
What is action?
This skill helps people move through uncertainty by staying flexible, responding to feedback, and adjusting when something is not working.
What is adaptability?
The first unofficial HES outing was hosted at this night club
What is Salon?