We hope to see you there and we wish everyone good luck with their finals!

I hope that you have all been having a wonderful spring semester and to those graduating soon, Congratulations! 

Just a heads up, but we will be having our last GBM of the semester this Thursday (5/12) at 5:00 PM through the Discord server ( https://discord.gg/QsNujc3xtp). During this meeting we will be electing new members to the board. All positions will be open except for the presidential position and brief descriptions are listed below, and if you have any questions please feel free to email the current Eboard members. We would be happy to answer your questions. Likewise, if you are interested in running, we please request that you prepare a short speech as voting will be done live. Good luck to all everyone who would like to run and we hope to see you there.  

Best wishes, 

The S.T.A.R. Program Eboard

Vice President - Assuming presidential duties when the president is unavailable, taking on duties delegated by the president (Position must be filled)

Treasurer - managing organizational funds and ensuring compliance with all financial rules and guidelines (Position must be filled)

Secretary - Coordinating with president, vice president, and treasurer to manage recruitment events, managing recruitment and retention of members

Fundraising chair - fundraising for the club, working with treasurer to fund club account

Public Relations Chair - Working with Secretary to manage member retention and recruitment efforts, managing public relations of the club, working with other members to manage social media sites, marketing for the club

Anything ON THE TABLE is FREE. 

Responsibilities

The following are the duties of this position at the CN-51, broadly equivalent to the GS-11. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position.

1. Develop and maintain shared databases; manage the timeliness and integrity of data; maintain documentation of database contents and data flows to ensure that future verification and reproduction of results can take place, coordinating activities of others as needed; produce reports and provide information on database contents to support the requirements of management, data maintainers, and data user.
2. Apply a variety of economic and statistical analysis and modeling techniques that are used by economists, psychologists, and statisticians for research. Perform straightforward mathematical and statistical calculations to support research and monitoring of policy developments.
3. Develop expertise in straightforward statistical sampling and modeling to provide technical assistance to researchers and policy analysts. Monitor and report on current developments in assigned consumer financial area.
4. Make modifications in existing data gathering and statistical reporting procedures and assists in review and adoption of new procedures, applying in-depth knowledge of the source data and data manipulation techniques. Seek out innovative, new sources of data to improve quality of analysis and incorporate them into analysis.
5. Keep abreast of and write segments of reports on economic or financial developments, and perform systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of economic data to support findings.

Exploring Stories of Political Activism and Ideological Perpetuation in Black Religious Institutions 

Joshua Gray
Mentors: Ann Sofie Clemmensen, Dance; Liz Patton, Media and Communication Studies

The presence of political debate and activism at dining tables, conference rooms, and other traditionally apolitical spaces has burgeoned in recent history. The Black church has been one of these politically transformed spaces that have been impactful in promoting movements around political ideologies. The Black body is political, and so are all cultural and religious practices from that experience. This research uses ethnographic and choreographic practices to explore themes of embodied Blackness, relational power, and institutionally-bound socio-political obligations. This research considers the question: how do congregants within Black Religious Institutions identify with their role in the political landscape that has led to change in diplomacy, legislation, awareness and transparency, civic engagement, and rights expansion — even on a microscale. Through collecting and interpreting oral histories within Black Religious Institutions, these stories and interactions informed a new contemporary choreographic work and an inquiry into choreographic methodologies foregrounding Africanist movement expression and values.

This work was funded, in part, through an Undergraduate Research Award from the UMBC Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs.

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