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Global Ambassadors Mission
The Global Ambassadors Program seeks to create globally minded members from the standpoint of cultural humility through sincere connections between our local and global communities. The program reflects UW-Tacoma’s urban serving mission through developing members’ interest and understanding of global issues through both global and local lenses and contexts. Members with learn to build meaningful relationships with people from diverse backgrounds while becoming comfortable having civil conversations with people of differing opinions. It is the desire to create a safe space for conversations between our members. These conversations, rooted in cultural humility, allows members to better articulate what cultural humility means, why it is important, and are meant to allow members to take what was discussed into their everyday lives.
Global Ambassadors Program and UWTea Time Collaboration
These are two separate programs which have come together for the 2020-2021 academic year to encourage student engagement. We currently meet together though previously meetings have been separate. A decision for this continuity has not yet been made for the 2021-2022 academic year.
Meeting Teaser
COVID-19 Q&A
FAQ
- Discuss complex social, economic, cultural, and world relevant issues.
- Reflection opportunities.
- Meeting topics applications in real world by members.
- New event planning feedback
- Extra social events
- Previous examples include farmer’s market visits, holiday gift exchanges and gatherings, escape rooms (both virtual and in person), and relevant extracurricular meetings, such as SARS-CoV-2 presentation.
- Internaitonal and Domestic Students.
- Students of all majors and class standings.
- Staff and Faculty, both as guest speakers and conversation participants.
- Individuals looking to identify unknown commonalities between others.
- Exposure to relevant current topics of concern in today's global works.
- Foster the ability to reflect on inherent biases.
- Develop tools for effective communication strategies.
- Safe space for conversations rearding sensitive topics.
- Establish friendships with other students, both global and domestic.
- Internaitonal Students gain insights into domestic life and have a much more immersive experience.
- All members develop connections with the UW Tacoma community.
- All Global Ambassadors should be prepared to participate in organized meetings which are announced well in advance to give proper scheduling time. We acknowledge that education is a priority, but great care is taken to ensure members’ time is respected.
Spring 2021 Meetings
Please join us via Zoom every other Friday from 12:30-1:30 pm.
- April 2nd, 16th, 30th
- May 14th, 28th
Apply to Become a GA!
Application Deadline: Rolling application cycles, apply now!
Reach out to globala@uw.edu.
2020-2021 Meetings
2019-2020 Meetings
