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During the Spring 2014 CSHA (California Speech, Language, and Hearing Association) conference in San Francisco, Sandra Gaskell, the chair of CSHA’s Multicultural and Diversity Awareness Board, encouraged three undergraduate communicative disorders students to form an academic subchapter under CSUF NSSLHA. Sacramento State students had pioneered their own multicultural and diversity awareness subchapter under NSSLHA, and this, along with the growing need for the increased awareness of multiculturalism and diversity, further propelled the creation of STANCE (Student Speech Therapists and Audiologists Nurturing Cultural Enrichment). To this day, the executive board members of STANCE actively work to bring knowledge and insight to all students in the major of Communicative Disorders. Our hope is that everyone eventually finds a stance on all multicultural and diversity awareness issues in our nation.