First Up- @CUSOMFirstUP  

The mission of First Up is to promote the wellbeing and achievement of first-generation students at CUSOM. We seek to foster a community of students with shared experiences and a passion for healthcare. This becomes the basis for mutual support and creates a sense of belonging within the School of Medicine.  Our program embraces physician mentorship that values early, active, and one-on-one outreach to disadvantaged or underrepresented first-generation students. In addition, we host panels, workshops, and lectures that anticipate questions mentees might not think to ask and empower participants to have a voice in programming needs. We aim to provide an additional foundational layer of support for first-generation health sciences students by providing programming, knowledge, and skills that assist in eliminating barriers to success for students while in medical school and after graduation. We created these videos from the student perspective and the faculty perspective to help explain our role in supporting first-year, first-generation students.. 
If you’d like more information you can contact us at:

• Quy.Tate@cuanschutz.edu
• Clayton.Hoffman@cuanschuts.edu
• Christina.Cheung@cuanschutz.edu
• Vishruti.Patel@cuanschutz.edu 

White Coats 4 Black Lives (WC4BL) 

White Coats for Black Lives is a national organization that works to dismantle racism in medicine and promote the health, well-being, and self-determination of Black and indigenous people, and other people of color.

• More information: https://whitecoats4blacklives.org/.
• Questions:cusomwhitecoats4blacklives@gmail.com  

The Latinx Medical Student Association (LMSA) 

The Latinx Medical Student Association is a national organization, although our chapter here at CU Anschutz is fairly young. We are a group of leaders joined by the common goals of representing, welcoming, and unifying underrepresented students at the Anschutz campus. The goal of this organization is to create a community in which we uplift and support the interests of students identifying as underrepresented in medicine by providing career exploration, community engagement, networking and service learning.  Although this primarily a medical student Latinx organization, we welcome students across all identities and disciplines to join our community and be involved. 
If you would like to learn more about our chapter and ways to be involved, please feel free to contact us: 

• President of LMSA – Louis Morales at louis.morales-shnaider@cuanschutz.edu
• At large member of LMSA – Brissa Santacruz at brissa.santacruzgutierrez@cuanschutz.edu 

Student National Medical Association @CUSOMSNMA 

The Medical Student Pride Alliance (MSPA)

The Medical Student Pride Alliance is an activist and social organization committed to empowering sexual and gender minority medical students and allies, increasing the number of physicians trained in LGBTQ-inclusive healthcare, and addressing the unique needs of LGBTQ+ communities through research, advocacy, and service.

If you would like to learn more, please contact us:

• Monica.Patten@cuanschutz.edu
• Madelyn.Mendlen@cuanschutz.edu

The Minority and Allied Resident Council (MARC)

The Minority and Allied Residency Council was founded to create a space to connect minorities and allies to each other across specialties and hospitals, to grow a community for support and healing, and to craft a collective voice for minority residents on our campuses. It exists within the CU School of Medicine’s Office of Diversity & Inclusion and through the support of the CU Alumni office. In addition to community building, we are committed to enabling mentorship from minority faculty, scholarship in diversity, minority patient outreach and recruitment of diverse and inclusive candidates to CU. We are always looking for leaders and allies to join our mission. Please consider joining our council by signing up here: http://tiny.cc/MinorityResidency, or contacting:

• President Prashanth.Francis@cuanschutz.edu
• Vice President Michelle.Corrado@childrenscolorado.edu
• Christy.Angerhofer@cuanschutz.edu