Diversity and culture is what it promotes, but this year Mungano is promoting how excited it is for a new year.
There is a new executive board to lead the organization and it is working together in a solid group to come up with multiple ideas to get the whole campus involved with its cause.
Sophomore Denesha Jones is the new secretary on the executive board and is having a great time with her position, while bringing her ideas to the table.
“I wanted to be on the executive board because I wanted other people to be excited about diversity and different cultures like I was when I came to Baker,” Jones said. “I wanted to bring awareness.”
Junior JaNay Adgers is the public relations chair on the executive board. She thinks this year will be very beneficial to the organization because it has new ideas that are being put into play and also, the executive board works together better than in past years.
“I feel like this executive board has gone down different pathways than past executive boards,” Adgers said. “We really want to do more things.”
One new aspect Mungano is adding this year is volunteering. It has a volunteering opportunity on Nov. 13, where the group will be helping at a soup kitchen for Veterans Day. The group will also be volunteering at an orphanage in the spring.
“I am really excited that we are starting to volunteer this year because now when people ask us what we do, we can say something other than that we highlight other cultures,” Adgers said. “We are actually going to be volunteering and doing things for the community.”
This year, the group has been focusing on Hispanic Heritage month for October. They have had numerous events open to the campus to promote Hispanic culture.
Events include multiple speakers that have come to speak about where they are from and the background of their cultures. Mungano also hosted a movie night where it showed the film “Selena.”
“We are trying to bring a lot more activities this year,” Adgers said. “Especially more social events.”
Other than its events throughout the month of October, the group has a wide range of new activities it is doing to raise diversity awareness.
Mungano is participating in the Swipe out Hunger event, handing out ribbons during AIDS awareness month, doing different activities at meetings to promote diversity, and making events that are bigger and better traditions within the group..
“I think this year is going really well so far,” senior John Babb said. “We have an enthusiastic, hard working (executive) board, and it’s fun to watch our new president’s ideas come to life.”
