Our newest committee, Diversity and Inclusion was created to address the diverse population of students at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine. The committee's focus is on celebrating and raising awareness of the unique differences among our students and community through events like Multicultural night, Family Arts & Crafts, LGBTQ Socials, and the Pride Parade in June.
Check out footage from our past events and keep an eye out of upcoming Diversity and Inclusion sponsored events! Or if you have an idea for an event, contact our Chair or Vice Chair with your ideas!
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Created by: Neha Mithia
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Looking for LGBT Resources?The Diversity and Inclusion Committee provides resources to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer students at BU GSDM. Through the Boston University Medical Campus LGBTQ+ Organization, we take part in and host social and educational events geared towards LGBTQ+ students as well as allies of the community. To learn more about our resources, contact our Committee Chair or click the button below.
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Hazeka Kadri
AS 2018
Hometown: Ahmedabad, India
Contact: hmkadri7@bu.edu
Chair
Hazeka is an Indian who moved to the United States in 2013. Last year, Hazeka had the opportunity to spearhead a fun event: Multicultural Night. As Chair, she hopes to continue such events and create new ones. She is proud to be a part of the Boston University community and feels that working with ASDA can help bring excitement and provide a platform in which students can share ideas and make a difference through the Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Her passion is to interact with people from different backgrounds, uplift them and help them understand they are unique and it is perfectly fine to be different. One of the reasons she opted to choose BU was because it has culturally diverse environment. Cultural awareness and sensitivity are one of the founding pillars of BU ASDA Diversity and Inclusion Committee. When you bring people believing in different traditions and festivals together- you get wonderful opportunity to learn, interact and experience their culture, food and intellectual opinions. She strongly believes promoting diversity brings out the ability to think differently and evaluate situations critically. The best way you can know a person is when you walk in their shoes. People hesitate and hold immense level of skepticism against people, community or traditions they do not understand or have never been exposed to. There comes an invisible barrier whilst communicating with people from different background. I would continually advocate cultural diversity as BU does and make it more acceptable and adventurous especially by holding events open to our diverse community.
AS 2018
Hometown: Ahmedabad, India
Contact: hmkadri7@bu.edu
Chair
Hazeka is an Indian who moved to the United States in 2013. Last year, Hazeka had the opportunity to spearhead a fun event: Multicultural Night. As Chair, she hopes to continue such events and create new ones. She is proud to be a part of the Boston University community and feels that working with ASDA can help bring excitement and provide a platform in which students can share ideas and make a difference through the Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Her passion is to interact with people from different backgrounds, uplift them and help them understand they are unique and it is perfectly fine to be different. One of the reasons she opted to choose BU was because it has culturally diverse environment. Cultural awareness and sensitivity are one of the founding pillars of BU ASDA Diversity and Inclusion Committee. When you bring people believing in different traditions and festivals together- you get wonderful opportunity to learn, interact and experience their culture, food and intellectual opinions. She strongly believes promoting diversity brings out the ability to think differently and evaluate situations critically. The best way you can know a person is when you walk in their shoes. People hesitate and hold immense level of skepticism against people, community or traditions they do not understand or have never been exposed to. There comes an invisible barrier whilst communicating with people from different background. I would continually advocate cultural diversity as BU does and make it more acceptable and adventurous especially by holding events open to our diverse community.
Miguel Moreno
DMD 2020
Hometown: Boca Raton, FL and Bensalem, PA
Contact: migeno@bu.edu
Vice Chair
Miguel is Colombian and has spent the majority of his life in the United States. He can speak Spanish, French and is learning Portuguese. During University he was involved in pre-dental, multi-cultural and LGBT+ interest groups. Right off the bat--during orientation for dental school--he caught ASDA Fever and now as vice chair of Diversity and Inclusion his aim is to raise awareness, keep an open mind, and seek out opportunities to increase the help, attention, and knowledge toward various minority and marginalized groups
DMD 2020
Hometown: Boca Raton, FL and Bensalem, PA
Contact: migeno@bu.edu
Vice Chair
Miguel is Colombian and has spent the majority of his life in the United States. He can speak Spanish, French and is learning Portuguese. During University he was involved in pre-dental, multi-cultural and LGBT+ interest groups. Right off the bat--during orientation for dental school--he caught ASDA Fever and now as vice chair of Diversity and Inclusion his aim is to raise awareness, keep an open mind, and seek out opportunities to increase the help, attention, and knowledge toward various minority and marginalized groups
Alina Ploaie
DMD 2020
Hometown: Bistrita, Romania
Contact: alina1@bu.edu
Vice Chair
A nontraditional student herself, Alina likes to encourage pre-dental students to believe in themselves and in their aspiration of becoming dentists. She grew up in Bistrita, a town in the heart of the Carpathian Mountains in Romania. In the summer of 2010, Alina moved to the United States and in 2016 she graduated summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, with a Bachelor of Science in Biology-Biotechnology. While pursuing her undergraduate degree, Alina visited BU as a pre-dental student. She made friends among the students leading the BU ASDA Chapter. Their helpful, friendly attitude inspired her to join ASDA. Fueled by ASDA's passion, her goal is to help perpetuate the diversity and inclusion culture on our campus and to build more cultural bridges between the dental, medical students, faculty, and staff. She is keen on hosting multicultural events to foster peace and acceptance by sharing and learning about diverse food, music, religions and cultures our students bring to the school from all over the world.
DMD 2020
Hometown: Bistrita, Romania
Contact: alina1@bu.edu
Vice Chair
A nontraditional student herself, Alina likes to encourage pre-dental students to believe in themselves and in their aspiration of becoming dentists. She grew up in Bistrita, a town in the heart of the Carpathian Mountains in Romania. In the summer of 2010, Alina moved to the United States and in 2016 she graduated summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, with a Bachelor of Science in Biology-Biotechnology. While pursuing her undergraduate degree, Alina visited BU as a pre-dental student. She made friends among the students leading the BU ASDA Chapter. Their helpful, friendly attitude inspired her to join ASDA. Fueled by ASDA's passion, her goal is to help perpetuate the diversity and inclusion culture on our campus and to build more cultural bridges between the dental, medical students, faculty, and staff. She is keen on hosting multicultural events to foster peace and acceptance by sharing and learning about diverse food, music, religions and cultures our students bring to the school from all over the world.
