As a person of color and potential employee, your identities bring unique assets and strengths into the workplace. Consider the qualities or skills you’ve developed from challenges that you’ve overcome or nuanced understanding you’ve gained by nature of your identity. We (CCEE Career Education Specialists) will work individually with you to help you unpack, identify, and explore your career interests, values, and goals.
Some unique concerns that students of color have conveyed include:
- how to deal with unconscious bias and stereotyping (implicit bias) throughout their career journey
- expectations with respect to hair and presentation at work
- being the only or one of a few person(s) of color
- shifting the language you use or the way you express yourself in your conversations (code-switching)
On-campus ways to immerse yourself in JEDI
- URI courses: consider enrolling in these courses to develop your cultural competency:
Scholarships and Fellowships
- College Educated BIPOC Scholarships: A list of top BIPOC student scholarships
- African American Grants: A comprehensive list of various scholarships for students of color.
- INROADS: The mission of INROADS is to develop and place talented minority young people in business and industry and prepare them for corporate and community leadership.
- Lagrant Foundation: The LAGRANT Foundation seeks to enhance the academic and professional development of undergraduate and graduate ethnic minority students pursuing careers in advertising, marketing and public relations by providing scholarships, career and professional development workshops, mentors and internships.
- Seizing Every Opportunity (SEO): SEO’s mission is to place underrepresented students of color into paid summer internships. SEO places interns in banking, private equity, corporate leadership, law, non-profit and other business sectors. Students receive competitive pay, rigorous training, support through mentors, and broad access to full-time professionals and industry leadership.
- The Getty Foundation Multicultural Undergraduate Internship: The Getty Foundation aims to encourage greater diversity in the professions related to museums and the visual arts. The program provides funding for internships at cultural organizations across Los Angeles.
- T. Howard Foundation: The T. Howard Foundation is an internship program for minority students interested in the multimedia and entertainment industry. In addition to a full-time paid summer internship, it also provides interns with networking opportunities, professional development training, scholarships, and mentors.
- United States National Park Service: The Cultural Resources Diversity Internship Program provides a career exploration opportunity for diverse undergraduate and graduate students ages 18-25 in historic preservation/cultural resources work. The program places interns with National Park Service park units and administrative offices, other federal agencies, state historic preservation offices, local governments, and private organizations.
- College Scholarships.org: List of LGBTQ+ scholarships (follow the link and then search by keyword LGBTQ)
- Scholarships and Resources for Black PhD Students – Financing Your PhD: Scholarships & Resources for Black Students
