{"id":314,"date":"2025-06-24T15:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T19:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aig.alumni.virginia.edu\/ubunye\/?p=314"},"modified":"2025-06-24T15:48:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T19:48:46","slug":"alumni-interest-groups-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/ubunye\/2025\/06\/alumni-interest-groups-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Interest Groups Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-321\" src=\"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/ubunye\/files\/2025\/06\/June-2025-DC-Mixer-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/ubunye\/files\/2025\/06\/June-2025-DC-Mixer-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/ubunye\/files\/2025\/06\/June-2025-DC-Mixer.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-322\" src=\"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/ubunye\/files\/2025\/06\/AIG-Leaders-June-DC-Mixer-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/ubunye\/files\/2025\/06\/AIG-Leaders-June-DC-Mixer-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/ubunye\/files\/2025\/06\/AIG-Leaders-June-DC-Mixer.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>We are elated by the success of our first in person gathering on June 12 in New York and D.C. with the <a href=\"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/aapaan\/\">Asian and Asian Pacific American Alumni Network (AAPAAN)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/bolivar\/\">The Bol\u00edvar Network (Hispanic and Latino\/e community)<\/a>. Our ongoing conversations and association with one another are important as we grow our organizations, share approaches to unification, and ideate ways to support University activities. Many thanks to <strong>Claudia Bonilla (<abbr title=\"College of Arts &amp; Sciences\">Col<\/abbr> <span class=\"visually-hidden\">class of <\/span>\u201917)<\/strong>, Bol\u00edvar Network co-president; <strong>Rodney Rhodes (<abbr title=\"Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy\">Batten<\/abbr> <span class=\"visually-hidden\">class of <\/span>\u201923)<\/strong>, Ubunye co-president; and <strong>Debby Stroman (<abbr title=\"School of Education &amp; Human Development\">Educ<\/abbr> <span class=\"visually-hidden\">class of <\/span>\u201982)<\/strong>, Ubunye co-president for your help organizing and attending the DC event (pictured above right).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are elated by the success of our first in person gathering on June 12 in New York and D.C. with the Asian and Asian Pacific American Alumni Network (AAPAAN) and The Bol\u00edvar Network (Hispanic and Latino\/e community). Our ongoing conversations and association with one another are important as we grow our organizations, share approaches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alumni Interest Groups Collaboration - Ubunye: UVA Black Alumni<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/ubunye\/2025\/06\/alumni-interest-groups-collaboration\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alumni Interest Groups Collaboration - Ubunye: UVA Black Alumni\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We are elated by the success of our first in person gathering on June 12 in New York and D.C. with the Asian and Asian Pacific American Alumni Network (AAPAAN) and The Bol\u00edvar Network (Hispanic and Latino\/e community). 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