Over 300 high school students filled Emporia State’s Memorial Union last week for the university’s annual Diversity Leadership Summit.
Students from Kansas and Missouri attended. Among them was Emporia High senior Kaila Chea, who has been heavily involved in the school’s Jobs For America’s Graduates-Kansas program and is already set for college at ESU.
Also attending was Janiya Oatis. Originally from Georgia, she now goes to school at Geary County. She is in the midst of picking her college, and she says she liked what she saw at ESU.
Chea tells KVOE News people need to celebrate America’s rich multicultural heritage, not dismiss it.
Students were treated to workshops, breakout sessions and scholarship opportunities. Featured speakers included two Emporia State alums, Shawnee County Sheriff Herman Jones and Clarissa Carrillo Martinez, who has worked with Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland.
