Purpose

Transformar Mentorship Program encourages students to explore education and identity through cultural and community-based approaches. This program is intended to help first and second year students link their cultural background and sense of identity to their academic experience and professional aspirations.

The program includes two semesters of mentorship and learning, and an opportunity to participate in the two-week Transformar Study Abroad trip to Mexico. This trip will take place at the end of the Spring 2026 semester and before summer school starts. If you are not eligible to study abroad, you can still participate in the Transformar Mentorship Program.

Objectives

• To reinforce students' own cultural self-determination and understanding of social issues
• To strengthen students' own sense of their intersectional identity
• To learn cultural and traditional knowledge used to create ancient civilizations, as a complex social, cultural, political, and economic dynamic