As we turn the corner into the fall season, we would like to do so with clarity and community. The Black Alliance Fall Focus Event will help us to become acquainted with other Black staff, faculty, students, and community members while also helping us to learn some techniques that can help us to calm and focus ourselves. This event will center a Black culture game, a panel discussion with new Black woman owned businesses in Merced, and an exercise facilitated by a Black woman therapist, Lauren Ludlow, that will teach tools for using values to create vision and priorities as we move into the new season.