February 27, 2017
“At Mason there has been an absence of voice for graduate students. They are often forgotten because they are at that level of adulthood where they commute [to school] or have jobs,” he said.
His effort to help his fellow graduate students’ voices be heard and amplified at the commonwealth’s largest public research university is why he was named a 2017 Spirit of King awardee by George Mason’s Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Multicultural Education.
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