Communities

Your DGSOM, your community

You make the DGSOM a welcoming, effective institution we can all be proud of. Your involvement—your voice—strengthens our collective impact, making our community more resilient, more visionary, and more just.

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Let us know how we are doing, suggest a new community, or give feedback on an existing one. We want to hear from you as our landscape changes!

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Community Spotlights

Our community is made up of talented leaders who care deeply and work to impact the world for good.

Jordan Daniel, UCLA CTSI

“I’m a citizen of the Kul Wicasa Oyate, the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe in central South Dakota, providing land acknowledgment during the Fall Gathering. These have been happening a lot...

Aileen Arevalo, class of 2022

“During Cultural Awareness Week, all the affinity groups come together and showcase what they’re working on or what current topics are important to their groups,” explains Aileen Arevalo, a second-year...

Lovelee Brown, MD

“I felt it was imperative to choose a program that was open to growth, change and had experience in developing leaders,” says Lovelee Brown, MD. Dr. Brown (pictured second from...

Cultural North Star

The Cultural North Star is a school-wide initiative that embodies who we are and why we are here.

Make Things Better

Do What’s Right

Be Kind

Offering positive recognition is a simple but transformative act. And the research agrees.

Studies have shown that feelings of gratitude activate areas of the brain correlated with moral cognition, rewards and positive emotion. And even better, the more we engage in it, the more we gain from it.

Recognize Someone's Efforts

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