 My name is Christina Kour and I'm a senior in chemical engineering. I'm also the president of the National Society of Black Engineers at Purdue and I am a black engineer. What this means to me is that I have to stand up for those who don't have a voice and I will do that with everything that I can. Being a black engineer means that I'll be the only one in the classroom who looks like me in multiple classrooms knowing that people underestimate me or discount me but knowing that I can rise above it and be resilient. So seeing that there's a small amount of incoming black engineering students is really disheartening to me knowing that when NSBE was first founded we had more incoming black engineers back then and now we're in 2020 and we only have 27 incoming students. So I really hope that I can change that especially with the work that I'm doing on the engineering admissions task force being a student representative. So looking at how students are seeing Purdue from an admissions standpoint and where we can make improvements whether that be through scholarships or changing the admissions process understanding how students are looking at Purdue and seeing what we can do to allow more of them in so we don't have those 27 incoming students. Although there are a number of setbacks with any kind of predominantly white institution I do still think that students should come to Purdue. There's a lot of room for growth and finding yourself. You can always find that community and that's what I did whether it be through the minority engineering program through NSBE. Although we are a small number there is a community here of people that you can rely on. I just want to be a voice for people who either don't feel comfortable or don't feel safe to speak their mind from what I want to do with NSBE is have that community feel where any student from any nationality or ethnicity can come to NSBE they don't have to be a black engineer but just for them to rely on us and know that they have that community of people who will support them no matter what rather be academic socially or professionally.