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Piedmont Affinity Mentorship In the News

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Author Kate Schatz

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Former Mayor Jen Cavenaugh

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East Bay Times Article

The Piedmont Highlander Article

Piedmont Exedra Article

Piedmont schools’ new DEI director also runs mentorship programThe Piedmont Unified School District suggested that Jean Chen Takazawa apply to run its Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Department upon her predecessor’s departure.

Piedmont Exedra Article

Mentorship program by AAA and BSU encourages younger students to examine their identitiesUpdate as of May 7, 2021: The mentorship program is now called the Piedmont Affinity and Identity Mentor Program. It has expanded to all three Piedmont elementary schools and serves over sixty elementary students from Asian, Black, and Latinx backgrounds. PHS and MHS’s Black Student Union (BSU) and Advocacy for Asian Americans (AAA) clubs have...

Affinity Mentorship Earns Status as Eighth Period Class“I want to be a resource for the kids to help explore their identity and ask questions that usually don’t really get good answers for both race and gender.” Seb Ford, senior

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