2025-2026 Heller Student Working Groups
Brandeis University Africa Forum
Contact buaf@brandeis.edu
The Brandeis University Africa Forum is a working group of African students and other members of Heller who are interested in African history and culture. Some of its activities include 1) organizing various panels with a focus on African socioeconomic and political context; 2) coordinating cultural events that reflect African and African descent culture and history; 3) creating a network with other African Student Associations in the U.S.
Community Engagement Working Group
Contact: Chloe Morales, cmorales@brandeis.edu or Annika Meurs, annikameurs@brandeis.edu
Are you a graduate student looking for an opportunity to connect with the local Waltham community? Join the new Community Engagement Student Working Group! We will be doing volunteer work with Waltham-based organizations, such as the Waltham Family School and Waltham Fields Community Farm.
Disability Working Group
Contact Fernanda Artimos de Oliveira, fernandaa@brandeis.edu
As the Heller Disability Working Group, our purpose is to serve as a resource to people with disabilities within the Heller community, as a network of support and advocacy. We do this through organizing events to draw awareness to issues affecting the disability community, through advocating directly to the university faculty on behalf of people with disabilities within the Heller community, and through building connections with other groups promoting social change on campus. We envision a rights-based, intersectional definition of disability, taking into account the historical processes through which disability has been created and defined.
LatinX Working Group
Contact: Willie Gomez, wgomez@brandeis.edu
Steps to creating a working group for the 2025-2026 Academic Year
- Check the list of current working groups to determine if you can work with an existing group. A streamlined list of working groups means events are less likely to overlap with each other!
- Draft a short introduction to the objectives, goals and proposed activities of the working group.
- Meet with the Associate Director of Academic Affairs, Marc Kiredjian (mkiredjian@brandeis.edu), to discuss your idea(s).