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Posts by Elizabeth Shalanda Whitmore

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Members of the Student Library Engagement Ambassador Team (9 individuals) stand and sit around the Shapiro Library sign
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  • Elizabeth Shalanda Whitmore
  • Amira Said
End of Year Ambassador Review (2024-2025)
From events to social media outreach, the Student Library Engagement Ambassadors highlight underutilized library resources to the U-M community. Elizabeth and Amira, two recent graduates from the University of Michigan, recount the past year as experienced Ambassadors.
Members of various Greek Life organizations, who are wearing their merchandise (e.g. Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority sisters are wearing white and red), gather together for a group photo at the 19th Annual Multicultural Greek Exhibition (MGX) 2025
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  • Valeria Serratos
Multicultural Greek Exhibition
The 19th Annual Multicultural Greek Exhibition (MGX) was founded by the sisters of Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority. MGX combats negative stigmas of Greek Life by illustrating that Greeks are involved in tradition, community service, philanthropy, and diversity and unity.
A diverse group of women engineers from the University of Michigan are standing in front of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. wearing formal business attire
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  • Rachel Marina Ward
Society of Women Engineers Take Their Demands to Capitol Hill
On April 2nd, 2025, ten delegates from the University of Michigan's Society of Women Engineers (SWE) chapter traveled to Washington, D.C., to participate in SWE’s annual Congressional Outreach Day. Through representing the voices of countless women and marginalized individuals who are often excluded from governmental conversations, U-M SWE members endorsed a targeted list of federal legislative priorities and funding requests to ensure the success of marginalized groups working in STEM.
A woman with wavy, shoulder length-hair, brown-wire glasses, and a black shirt with swirling patterns, smiles at the reader
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  • Krystel Anderson
Seed Library: Growing a Legacy of Community
Krystel Anderson, a Seed Library Engagement Fellow, illustrates her experience in community-facing work, which included providing seeds to the community and accessible knowledge of plants and gardens.
Six students standing in a row.
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  • Elizabeth Shalanda Whitmore
Café Shapiro 2025 Reflections
Reflections on Café Shapiro 2025 from the 2024-2025 U-M Library Engagement Ambassador Team.
image of library ambassadors with Shapiro Library sign
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  • Amira Said
  • Elizabeth Shalanda Whitmore
  • Dawn HY Lau
  • Abigail Noel Nighswonger
Library Student Ambassadors: 2023 Reflections
The U-M Library Student Ambassadors are a team of students who work for the library to promote library services and resources to students through targeted social media campaigns and digital exhibits, publicize and host library events that foster engagement, diversity, and inclusion, suggest ways to improve student experience by participating in meetings and focus groups with library staff, and represent the U-M Library at campus fairs and events. Their work is highly collaborative and a goal of the program is to give them the agency to make their own decisions and plans for the year. These governing principles allow for a highly creative and fun environment that results in some really great library programs each year. Here’s a reflection from four of our recent Ambassadors.