About Project Baldwin
Goals
Project Baldwin works toward these student-centered goals:
- Build relationships and brotherhood bonds
- Develop an educational and professional network
- Encourage and nurture educational and career aspirations
- Create a plan for achieving academic and career goals
- Increase capacity to handle life’s challenges with trauma-informed practices
- Increase self-confidence, mental health awareness, and leadership skills
These goals are drawn from best practices, lived experiences, and successful efforts—both locally and from across the country—and aimed to counter stigmas and assumptions on campus about men of color and what they can achieve.
Districtwide Support
Project Baldwin operates districtwide to support first-generation and/or income-limited students attending:
- North Seattle College - Project Baldwin: North
- Seattle Central College - Project Baldwin: Central
- South Seattle College - Project Baldwin: South
Project Baldwin scholars participate in various events and activities including career and networking events, volunteer opportunities, quarterly academic advising, funding/scholarship workshops, study sessions, intramural sports, peer-to-peer mentoring, Project Baldwin celebrations, and more.
About James Baldwin
James Baldwin’s plays, essays, poems, and novels looked unflinchingly at the Black experience and the complexities of masculinity, sexuality, and class in American society.
- An Introduction to James Baldwin
(source: the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture)
Contact
Julius Lloyd
Director of Project Baldwin
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Some Guiding Thoughts for Project Baldwin
At Seattle Colleges' 49th Annual Community Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., special guest keynote speaker T. Elon Dancy, PhD, offered some guiding thoughts for Project Baldwin in relation to the legacy of MLK.