I wonder if the school is going to fire me for this again.
Why don't you guys?
No, well, we talked, we had permission for you.
If John gets told me about talking to you guys,
I'm going to be so sad.
You guys know who John is.
All right, so give me a sense of what
you are looking for here first as a student
and then also in front of your organization.
Yeah, so as the president of National Society of Black
Engineers, here at the Career Fair,
I'm just going to get for a full-time job.
I'll be graduating in May, but I'm just
looking to kind of find a job where I feel like I fit in,
like diversity is not just a statement that people make.
It's actually a full-time point of the organization.
So for all those experiences, new learning,
and new kind of solutions to their current problems,
that's what every job is, a solution to a problem,
provided to a customer.
So that's what I'm looking for right here at the Career Fair
and then it's your second question.
Talk to me what it was here at your organization.
It's the National Society of Black Engineers.
Yeah, it's a nice meeting.
We call it a nice meeting with Bestero campus.
It's kind of an updated version of the Wisconsin
Black Engineers Student Society.
And what we kind of do is we promote
a lot of professional development for students,
so we introduce them to a lot of opportunities,
where they just be resonating, introducing them to companies,
providing private workshops, even just doing stuff with stuff
like wellness and community bonding,
just to bring the Black students on campus together.
And it's not just because it's only Black students,
that's just our focus.
It's not a big space for Black students.
We're at the minority here.
We're probably about four or five percent of the campus.
So we're not a big space, especially in the engineering
call, we're probably about three percent.
So it's just a space for us to come together
and have a sense of being able to finish.
So when you hear about the deal that the university system
struck with Republicans to get a new engineering building,
but then also reducing or cutting a lot of the DEI programs
here, what's the feeling of that?
It's pretty disappointing considering the fact that I'm a
bookies bag of tuition student.
So I came here on a diversity kind of initiative.
It's the hell-low-income students go to college for free.
And so the fact that they kind of are destroying
our diversity buildings, it's very exciting.
It's a here just the fact that we won't have a safe space
to go to anymore.
That's where we go to have a community.
That's where we're going to have our own privacy
for its base.
That's where we're supposed to start meetings.
That's where we have our kind of organization.
Organization, e-word meetings.
So to hear that is going to be sworn down
and they don't give us any answers to what we're going to
relocate to, what the future is going to look like for us.
It's kind of sad to hear very like kind of disheartening
to hear that you're going to be.
Thanks for watching that way.
They want to cut out those infrastructures
that kind of place in the structure for me.
I wouldn't be here without the kind of pieces
that were put together to bring us.
So do you think there's future students
that won't come here or maybe won't try this?
There's definitely, if it kind of continues on the strike,
going to be a large addition in the diversity.
Most of the students that are in this,
we are all different scholarship programs.
Whether that be lead, leaders in diversity,
engineering, which targets minority students,
whether it be passing, whether it be the chancellor's programs,
whether it be book specialists, which I'm trying to want.
A lot of students are here on scholarships
that promote diversity.
So once those scholarships leave,
a lot of us won't have the chance
that it requires students in school.
In terms of what you're looking for for employers,
how important is it that they actually talk about DEI,
or can you sense when it's just lip service,
or it's a part of the website?
You can just look right at the main pictures
on their kind of, when you google their website,
what picture pops up?
Is there any person that looks like you?
Is there any representation for you?
When you talk to a person, are they, you know,
engaging with you?
Or do they give you a dismissive balance?
Who are they?
You know, it's kind of a vibe you get.
It's not necessarily something I have to ask about.
If you give me the type of energy that I expect,
then the response is valid.
If it's not the energy that I get,
I don't really have to look much further.
Can you kind of get to have some
that's just walking around the building?
Yeah, of course.
And I feel like I'm not going to lie.
My experience, most companies are very welcoming,
so I'm not too disheartened by it.
But I live online, I live in statistics.
Like, no, I definitely do my research.
I'm not going to just accept to offer,
and I do my research, so I definitely, you know,
ask kind of what's the appropriate bill,
but every company has ERGs and ERGs,
so at the end of the day,
it's not just what just the numbers look like,
it's more so what is the vibe for you?
And are you from Wisconsin originally?
I'm from all of Wisconsin.
Okay.
And do you want to stay in Wisconsin?
It's intense.
How much do I get to stay in Wisconsin?
Okay.
So, I mean, as far as like the home state feel,
but there's also got to be a sense of like,
where do I feel like, what are you talking about?
Where you feel like you're welcome to move on?
Yeah, my family's definitely here,
but I have family all over the country,
so anywhere I go, I'll feel supported,
and I can always visit.
So, I definitely feel safe in that aspect.
It's just, like you said, when I look for a company,
it's where do I feel like that's my home as well?
Like, do what?
When I'm talking to a representative,
do they make me feel comfortable?
When I research your company,
does this look like, you know, a mission that I support,
or a vision statement so I can see myself enforcing as well?
Especially if I'm going to relocate across the country,
I want to move for a reason.
I want to just move from like,
so, at the end of the day, that is a factor,
even though I said, you know, in the first part,
I'm joking, it does play a part, for sure.
Thank you.
Can I give you just so much of your name for me,
so I'm going to put it on tape?
Yeah, Cheyenne King, the CHQR,
CNN, the KITC.
All right, thank you, that was wonderful.