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As previously mentioned, one of our main goals for this series is to get students to engage with each other in hopes of better understanding the various perspectives we all have to learn to live with. Whether it is in the workplace or a community setting. This is why we have many interactive sessions that allow our students to engage with others. For example, during our social health workshop, we played an icebreaker game called “Find Someone Who…”. This game challenged the students to find something in common with another person in the room that they didn’t know. By doing this, the participants not only have to share information about themselves but be able to actively listen to their partner as well. By the end of our social health/skills workshop, not only did students leave knowing more people through interpersonal networking with peers but also left with a clear and effective elevator pitch to use when needing to make a

Many students have stated they love the fact that they can use these lessons from our TalKKs in their everyday life moving forward. ‘This makes me feel like we are making changes in students' lives around campus one talk at a time!’ (Breeze)

The Black barbershop was one of the spheres of influence that built the culture we know and identify with now. It has proven to strengthen communities and improve the mental, social, and emotional condition of people who have long been (and still feel) oppressed (Dawson, 2020). “Barbershop talk is unfiltered and, alas, often fueled by barbershop logic. And barbershop logic is…polarizing enough to reel you in” (Kimble, 2020). The barbershop is more than a place to get a “fly cut”, it is a place that positively affects the identities and lived experiences of all the members of its community. The program that our chapter has started at WSSU hopes to do the exact same thing for the members of the Ram community.