Provide leadership opportunities for middle-school students and high-school facilitators, offering meaningful additions to college applications and essays.
Increase access to social networks and resources, providing opportunities for letters of recommendation, internships, and college advice and preparation.
Offer younger students role models and exposure to college-age and college-bound students.
Build social and emotional skills necessary to succeed in a racially diverse world.
Build empathy across racial lines and reduce racial stereotypes.
Reduce fear, concern, and vulnerability, over race-related conflict.
Overcome barriers of residential and racial segregation.
Overcome trend that cross-racial friendships decline after elementary school.
Engage in meaningful discussions of race, racism, and Black history.
