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Cross-Affinity Group BBQ

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In October, La Raza and LSAD co-hosted a cross-affinity BBQ where students from all affinity groups were invited to attend. Alongside Oakland’s beautiful Lake Merritt on a sunny Saturday afternoon, students from various backgrounds enjoyed hot dogs, hamburgers (including veggie burgers) and music. Having spaces and events outside academics and networking are important to La Raza. In these events we aim to build strong social bonds to assure that students feel a sense of community within the law school and the legal world generally (spaces that can feel alienating to various affinity groups).

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Native Land Acknowledgement


We take a moment to recognize that Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin) (Hoo-Choon), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo (Cho-Chen-yo) speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the historic and sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma (Muh-wek-muh) Ohlone Tribe and other familial descendants of the Verona Band.

We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has benefited, and continues to benefit, from the use and occupation of this land since the institution's founding in 1868. Consistent with our values of community and diversity, we have a responsibility to acknowledge and make visible the university's relationship to Native peoples. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold the University of California, Berkeley more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.