WIDE student fellows expand their DEI understanding

The Workplace Inclusion and Diversity Education program "really pushes you to think critically about what DEI is," says Shruthisri "Sri" Ravisankar '25, who was a WIDE student fellow in 2023.

Launched in spring 2022, the student fellowship program is a partnership between the ILR Credit Internship Programand ILR WIDE. Students who have completed Cornell's introductory Intergroup Dialogue Course, an option for fulfilling ILR's new DEI requirement, can participate in credit internships related to workplace diversity and inclusion.

Students are advised by Stephen Kim, the assistant director of ILR WIDE, and complete an additional course on workplace DEI, "Workplace Inclusion: Theory and Practice," during their internship semester.

Ravisankar, who interned at Swami Vivekananda Youth Movementand was a teaching assistant for the India Global Service Learning Program, said WIDE has helped her "work toward the overarching question of how we can really work on ourselves as individuals and also pour ourselves into workplace communities to make change."

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Amira Shimin '25 is a student writer for the ILR School.