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It was a hot August day when Milen Mehari wound her way through a maze of tables and tents. The Asian Student Association and the Belly Dance Team had set up on Ball Circle. So had the Campus Christian Community and Students Helping Honduras. But nowhere at Club Carnival, a showcase of UMW\u2019s more than 100 student organizations, could Mehari find the one at the top of the list she held in her hand \u2013 the African Student Union.<\/p>\n

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Mili Mehari revived UMW’s African Student Union, serving as the group’s president for each of her four years at Mary Washington. She’ll volunteer with AmeriCorps for a year before pursuing a Ph.D. in Africana studies. Photo by Suzanne Carr Rossi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That\u2019s because, she finally learned, the once-active group had dissolved. And that wasn\u2019t OK with Mehari. She made a college career-changing move right then and there. A freshman who\u2019d lived in her Virginia Hall room for less than a week, she agreed to become president and revive the group.<\/p>\n

Back on Ball Circle Saturday, at the opposite end of her Mary Washington journey, Mehari will receive the bachelor\u2019s degree in English, and women\u2019s and gender studies, she spent four years earning. But she\u2019s perhaps just as proud of what she\u2019s leaving behind. With her passion \u2013 and poetry \u2013 she\u2019s breathed life into the African Student Union she\u2019s about to turn over to someone else. Working closely with the James Farmer Multicultural Center<\/a>, she\u2019s made it her mission \u2013 as has UMW President Troy Paino \u2013 to build up the culture of diversity on campus, for UMW students who look like she does \u2026 and for those who don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we say multiculturalism, it does not simply mean black and brown and marginalized,\u201d said Mehari, who plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Africana studies after a year with AmeriCorps. \u201cI believe there\u2019s a space for all of us to exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

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UMW English and women’s and gender studies major Milen Mehari will graduate Saturday knowing she did her part to enhance the culture of diversity on campus. As president of the African Student Union, she worked closely with the James Farmer Multicultural Center. Photo by Suzanne Carr Rossi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mehari, who goes by \u201cMili,\u201d was in third grade when her family moved to Arlington, Virginia, from Eritrea, where both\u00a0parents were active members of the east African country’s liberation efforts. They spoke Tigrinya, worked two jobs each and expected their daughter to go to college. Her cousin had studied at Mary Washington, so Mehari came with her mother to visit.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very beautiful,\u201d she said. \u201cIt moved me.\u201d She didn\u2019t tour anywhere else.<\/p>\n

She hit the ground running, landing a freshman-year internship with the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. There, she researched the criminalization of race and poverty \u2013 unfair targeting of marginalized populations by law enforcement \u2013 and how it led to disproportionate discipline in local schools. She dug into the concept of restorative justice \u2013 making things right through conversation and accountability, rather than punitive measures \u2013 and caught the attention of the local newspaper.<\/p>\n

Because of her upbringing, she told The Free Lance-Star\u00a0<\/em>in a 2016 article<\/a> that cited her studies, \u201cI don\u2019t have an option not to be great. I think that helped me to ignore the reality of what was going on. Now I can see this data \u2026 it\u2019s significant.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued that research during an internship with Fredericksburg\u2019s Optimal Health Enterprise, bringing a workshop on restorative justice to UMW in 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore than any other student I\u2019ve encountered, she understands what her purpose was on this campus,\u201d James Farmer Multicultural Assistant Director Chris Williams said of Mehari. They\u2019ve worked together to bring Mary Washington powerful events, including an eye-opening fall break trip to Selma<\/a>, Alabama, and the Social Justice and Leadership Summit<\/a>, about which they presented at an Atlanta conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer ability to bridge gaps between faculty, staff and students is outstanding,\u201d said James Farmer Postdoctoral Fellow in Civil Rights and Social Justice LaWanda Simpkins, who also presented. \u201cShe pushed me to operate in my truth by simply operating in hers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mili Mehari (front row, far right) poses with UMW students who joined the first-ever Fall Break Social Justice trip to Alabama stand in front of the Legacy Museum in Montgomery. Mehari played an important role in making the trip possible, including securing funds. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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JFMC’s staff said that impactful experiences like the Social Justice Fall Break Trip help students connect the dots between past and present-day civil rights struggles. The inaugural trip in 2017 took the UMW group to Selma, Alabama, where they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of the brutal 1965 Bloody Sunday police attack against civil rights protestors. Photo provided by JFMC. <\/div> <\/div>
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Mehari (front row, second from right) poses with UMW students in front of the Legacy Museum in Montgomery. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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In her role as a student leader, Mehari worked closely with the James Farmer Multicultural Center to make the fall break trip to Selma, Alabama, possible. Mehari is seen here on the bus with James Farmer Multicultural Center director Marion Sanford to her right and assistant director Chris Williams to her left. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Nothing brings out Mehari\u2019s truth like her poetry. Vice president of UMW\u2019s Political Poets Collective, her work was published last winter in the Oakland Arts Review<\/em>. In Unruly<\/em><\/a>, she uses her interaction with her own African hair \u2013 from feeling compelled to iron it flat to letting it fly \u2013 as a metaphor for the journey from oppression to empowerment.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s written poignant pieces for The <\/em>Blue & Gray Press<\/em>, been a RISE peer mentor, organized large-scale events like Colors of Africa and Resistance Through Poetry for Black History Month, and managed to minor in digital studies. Plus, she\u2019sa tele-ambassador for the admissions office, inviting prospective students to visit a UMW she feels she helped shape.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s \u201ca force of nature,\u201d Digital Knowledge Center Director Martha Burtis said of Mehari, who, as a Domain Fellow, supported Mary Washington\u2019s Domain of One\u2019s Own, which provides personal online space for all students. Burtis collaborated with Mehari, too, as advisor for one of herfive<\/em>independent studies. \u201cResisting Black Erasure<\/a>\u201d aims to capture narratives of black students through photos and video.<\/p>\n

\u201cPortraits of them to be celebrated, to be awed at,\u201d Mehari said. \u201cHow beautiful would it be to read about a black girl who went to UMW and did what I did?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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