Coordinator of Multicultural Affairs

Multicultural Affairs is race and so much more.  Because we do not just show up in class, conversations, relationships and around campus as simply as raced beings, it is multicultural affairs’ aim to embrace the multiple identities of race, gender identity, class, sexual orientation, ability, age, sex, and religious and faith identity and the ways in which those identities can move us to greater connection and communication, rather than polarize us.  It is our vision to have a Mt. Holyoke College campus community that is working toward transformation through social justice and identity awareness.

To move us toward that vision, we have these goals and objectives:

• To provide programs and services which encourage a campus community which embraces “dialogue through difference” – not just dialogue “across” difference
• To provide programs which connect social justice to leadership development that assist students to excel and achieve more in their academic endeavors
• To offer support and leadership to students of all identities to be empowered and aware of their identities
• To offer support to students who have targeted identities to unlearn internalized oppression.
• To provide extra-curricular education that moves the campus in the direction of anti-oppression, appreciation and understanding of differences, and celebration of those differences
• And, to create spaces of safety, learning, respect, celebration, and change within the cultural centers

Multicultural Affairs organizes itself around the principles of:

• Education and Support
• Celebration of Cultural Identities and Differences and,
• Liberation and Empowerment beyond a system of oppression

All of the programming accomplished through the office connects to the principles and vision in some way, so if you have any interest in those guiding principles, we invite you to contact, visit, email, or call the office to get involved.

To view the Multicultural Affairs Ella site:

1. Go to Ella
2. Login
3. Select My Workspace > Membership > Joinable Sites (to the right of “My Current Sites”)
4. Under Worksite, select “join” listed under Worksite > 7.12 Multicul Aff

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Become a fan of 'Multicultural Affairs at MHC' to get our latest updates programming and links going on through Multicultural Affairs and the Cultural Houses/Centers

A Little About the Coordinator of Multicultural Affairs

Tanya O. Williams
300 Mary Lyon Hall
9:00 am-5:00 pm, Monday-Friday
413-538-2550

The Coordinator of Multicultural Affairs, Tanya Williams, is proud Texan (Houston) who has developed an affinity for the Northeast. Tanya has been on staff at Mt. Holyoke for a year and is currently finishing her doctorate in Education at the University of Massachusetts.  Originally brought to Massachusetts to begin the aforementioned degree in Social Justice Education, Tanya has come to love the beauty of the colors of the leaves in Fall and the crispness of the Spring and Summer evenings…and the brilliance of the students at Mt. Holyoke College!  She invites you to swing by her office and say hello or visit her during her Blanchard office hours.