 It can kind of feel lonely as a graduate student to think that you're the only one going through these struggles and I think Voices creates this platform where students can come together to have these conversations. Voices is a student-led organization where students can forge connections, celebrate their identities, support one another and advocate for each other. Any grad student can join, anybody that feels that they're part of a marginalized group in CSC. If they feel like they have issues that need to be addressed within the community, if they feel like they can develop themselves in different ways, Voices is there for the students and basically to be a voice for the people that need Voices. The community bonding aspect is important because it helps people to feel part of a community and also because it really helps people navigate the struggles of a PG&M. They can bring their own ideas and form communities, participate in different events and navigate graduate schools together with other grad students. Organizations like Voices and communities like Voices will bring different students together that would have never interacted. They can bring up ideas and work with us to make the CSC community better. CSC is such a great place where we're thinking about, okay, who are we including, who are we excluding, how do we grow as a diverse student body and we needed a space that would allow these student concerns to be heard so that we can constantly reflect on how we are growing as a community. There are already these people in the community but bringing them up and uplifting their voices, making them more visible to also signal both internally and externally that the community is very diverse and we value these members. The organization, it's something to do outside research so it can help us build a community around other things and form friendships. So by bringing in those voices, by bringing in those experiences we are actually trying to make way for everyone to feel that they are heard, that their experiences matter and also find a common solution towards everyone's problems.