here’s a preview of what you can expect from the concurrent workshop sessions!

Collaborations and Partnerships

• Assessing Your First-gen Student Program: Where and How Do You Begin?

  • Maria Dykema Erb, Boston University

• Career Empowerment: Information Access, Social Capital, and Job Placement

  • Yasamin Mahallaty, CareerSpring

• Beyond GPA and Graduation Rates: Exploring Alternative Success Metrics for FGLI Programming

  • April Ruiz and Rachael Barlow, Wesleyan University

• Developing a FGLI Student Success Initiative

  • Miriam Sherin, Debbie Crimmins, Michael Fitzpatrick, Rebecca Pinchuk, and Amit Prachand, Northwestern University

• Faculty Connect: Scaling Up Faculty Engagement with First-Generation Students at New York University

  • Trace Jordan, NYU

• Partnering with a Robust FLI Alumni Network to Support FLI Alumni & Students

  • Anh LyJordan, Chris Sinclair, and Jennifer Telschow, CO-FLAN

Student success and student support

• Are you ok? Data-Informed Strategies for Empowering Mental Health and Wellbeing in FGLI Students and Students of Color

  • Selena Martinez and Sayra Alanis, EMERGE Fellowship

• Being FGLI in the Arts

  • Lane Marsh and Kaelani Burja, Princeton University

• FYE + SEL: A First Gen Inclusive Model for the First Year Experience Course

  • Zabrina Songui, Rutgers University Newark

• Jumpstarting the First Semester: A High Quality, Low Cost, Evidence-Based Alternative to the Summer Bridge

  • Sara Remedios Bloom, Columbia University School of General Studies

• Peer-to-Peer Learning as a Classroom Resource for FGLI Students

  • Nina Wieda, Northwestern University

• Proud To Be FLI: Utilizing FLI Storytelling to Support Student Mental Health & Wellness

  • Jennifer Telschow, The University of Chicago

• Scaling Up and Diversifying FGLI Student Support at Yale: An Integrated, Intersecting, and Overlapping Structure

  • Lynda Paul, Nancy Sanchez, Audrey Yeung, and Caitlin Willis, Yale University

• Success Coaching Program in Academic Advising: Build Your Blueprint for Success

  • Liana Mentor, Johns Hopkins University

• Supporting FLI Students Through Students: Building and Expanding Peer Mentoring Initiatives and Peer-Led Programming

  • Omandra Zamora and Talaya LeGette, The University of Chicago

• To & Through: Bridging our FGLI scholars as a pipeline access program starting from seventh grade TO higher education AND Launch Pad in getting them THROUGH higher education, careers and future endeavors!

  • Zoe Makropoulos, Aaron Reevey, and Kim Williams, Rutgers Future Scholars

• Walking with Our Scholars: A Model of Adaptive Academic Accompaniment

  • Itzxul Moreno, Manny Fernandez, Adrienne Skinner, and Amanda Springstead, University of Notre Dame

• Work in Progress: The Evolution of FGLI Programming at Wesleyan

  • Demetrius Colvin, April Ruiz, and Kiara Ruesta Cayetano, Wesleyan University

policy and campus culture

• Budgets, Org Charts, and Policy Memos, Oh My: The Challenges and Opportunities of Moving FGLI Student Support from Institutional Periphery to the “Center"

  • Khristina Gonzalez, Co-Founder of FGLI Consortium, Princeton University

• Transforming Band-Aid Solutions Into Institutional Change: Academic, Social, and Financial Pathways

  • Karin Gosselink, Yale University

• Using the Bridges Transition Model of Change Management to Support Readiness for Scale

  • Kourtney Cockrell, Co-Founder of FGLI Consortium; Regional Director and Vice President, Global Philanthropy at JPMorgan Chase (The Fellowship Initiative)

• Wellness at Scale: Fostering Resilience in the Face of Burnout

  • Devon Moore, Co-Founder of FGLI Consortium; ScholarMatch

• You Grow Girl: Residential & Virtual Expansion of the Freshman Scholars Institute

  • Ashleee Shaw and Chelsie Berg-Geist, Princeton University