Students shared how culture influences their identities at Embrace Your In-Between on Thursday in Franklin Hall.

Students involved with the Bateman, PRSSA’s national case study competition for public relations students, hosted the event. 

“The core messages of our campaign that we wanted to put out into the community was to amplify, promote and create more awareness about this cultural in-between identity,” said Blake Serrano, a junior public relations major and member of Bateman Team Gold. 

The event included sponsorships and raffle baskets from restaurants in Kent and an activity where students went around to different tables and wrote about how cultural in-betweens are embraced in different categories like fashion, art, music and entertainment.

Many students who attended the event said they enjoyed learning more about cultural identity and sharing their personal experiences with others at the event.

“I like events where we can see different cultures interacting because I’m from Brazil, and there are people from the U.S. and many other countries here, and it is nice to see the interactions,” said Ana Beatriz Fonseca, a senior fashion merchandising major. 

Many event attendees were eager to participate and said the activities helped them learn. 

“Culture brings us all together, and there is culture in everything we do and how that ties into what we do, what we learn and how we interact with everybody,” Miranda Hanavan, a junior advertising major, said 

Bateman Team Gold had goals for not only the people attending the event but for its team as well. 

“We definitely achieved our goals from this event, because of the big turnout, and we tried to make this event as interactive as possible so having questions that fit the cultural aspects was what we tried to do,” Serrano said.

Toward the end of the event, after the participants went and answered several questions, they were required to take a survey to measure what they learned while doing the activity. 

“The Bateman gold team did an amazing job making this event inclusive for everybody,” said Chloe Cornely, a senior public relations major. “It was a creative idea.”

Sydney Graham is a reporter. Contact her at s[email protected].