Umoja Scholars Program

Community and Belonging

• You'll be part of a supportive community where your cultural identity is embraced and celebrated.

• Umoja provides a safe space to connect with other students, helping you feel seen, valued, and at home on campus.

Cultural Affirmation and Safe Space

• Umoja offers a dedicated space on campus where students can connect with peers who share their cultural background, making it  easier to navigate college life while embracing one’s identity.

Academic & Personal Support

• From registering for classes to navigating personal challenges, Umoja is a reliable support system.
• Students often say Umoja kept them motivated through tough times and helped them grow both personally and academically.

Leadership and Growth Opportunities

• You'll have opportunities to lead, design workshops, and make your voice heard.

• Umoja encourages your involvement in shaping the program and the campus culture.

Cultural & Educational Events

• Participate in events and experiences that highlight Black excellence and celebrate your heritage.

• These events are not just inspiring—they also help you grow, learn, and network.

Lifelong networks 

• Community of peers and faculty who increase your personal and professional growth

All students are welcome to join!
The Umoja Scholars Program is open to everyone and especially designed to support and affirm the experiences of students from the African and African American Diasporas. Our work is guided by Umoja’s 18 Core Practices, which promote academic success, cultural identity, and community building.

Once You’re Part of Umoja, We Thrive Together

Becoming part of Umoja means joining a village that grows, supports, and celebrates with you. 

Once you're in, we rise together — in community, in culture, and in success.

You’re not alone. You’re part of Umoja. Your VOICE Matters and together, we thrive.

• Raising "intentional & deliberate"
• Ethic of love - the affective domain
• Manifesting
• Umoja counseling: affirming, integrated, intentional
• The porch
• Live learning
• Language as power
• Tapping African American intellectual, spiritual and artistic voices
• Awareness of connection to African Diaspora
• Community-based and communal intelligence
• Acceleration - English, math, ESL and counsel
• Occupy study spaces on campus
• Mentoring
• Mattering
• Umoja as a power base
• Encircling diversity
• Gifting
• Everybody's business

• HDC 101: Orientation to College Success - Dr. K. Mcrae 

   

Umoja Presents: Black History Month

Seattle Central College - Collaboration with Student Leadership - DACO - Project Baldwin & Community 

1. Diaspora Diaries: Then. Now. Forever

• Date: Wednesday, February 4

• Time: 3:00 PM

• Location: MAC Building, 1st Floor

• Details:

  • Personal stories & African drumming

  • Dinner served

  • Three students and staff share narratives of lived experience, reflection, and cultural memory

2. Roots, Rain & Rhythm: The Sound of Black Seattle (1985–1995)

• Date: Thursday, February 12

• Time: 5:30 PM

• Location: M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery, Seattle Central College

• Details:

  • Gallery opening celebrating Black Seattle’s music & culture

  • Live DJ & reception

  • In collaboration with As Many Weirdos As Possible; Student Leadership; DACO; Project Baldwin 

3. Love Stories From the Nile

• Date: Friday, February 13

• Time: 7:00 PM (Doors open at 6:30 PM)

• Location: Erickson Theatre

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• Details:

  • Storytelling & performance

  • Explores love across the Black Diaspora

  • Reception to follow

4. Emerald Matriarchs: Celebrating Black Women’s Power in Seattle

• Date: Wednesday, March 4

• Time: 2:00 PM

• Location: Rooms 1110 / 1111

• Details:

  • Honoring prominent Black women leaders

  • Featured honorees include:

    • Yoshiko Harden

    • CM Joy Hollingsworth

    • Judge Andrea Jarmon

    • And more

All events are open to the public.

Space is limited!!!  

Sign up early. 

We encourage you to sign up for these event 

SIGN UP HERE!!! 

More to come stay tune.