University of Florida’s Chief Diversity Officer and Senior Advisor to the President Antonio Farias wants everyone on campus to “level up” on belonging and inclusion.
Farias launched a podcast entitled “Level Up on Presence and Belonging” at the start of the semester to give a voice to UF’s diverse students, faculty and staff to the community, and to spark conversations about the different experiences they’ve had.
“My greatest hope is that the listeners will feel a sense of connection to the human beings that I have the privilege and honor of interviewing,” Farias said. “My website is useless to the community if all it does it put out some canned statement about belonging, equity and inclusion. I think the best way to sort of bring out that message is to actually put real human beings in front of a microphone.”
In each podcast episode, Farias interviews a different UF student, faculty or staff member and discusses diversity and asks the question, “What…
