The Stonewall Center’s Peer Mentorship Program matches incoming students to a mentor within the University’s LGBTQIA+ community to provide academic, social, and emotional support for the mentees. This program is dedicated to building community among LGBTQIA+ people on campus by fostering relationships between incoming and returning students and providing a built-in buddy system to help with transitioning to life at UMass. Mentors must proactively and regularly engage with their mentees 2-3 times per month, with at least one of those being an in-person engagement. For more info about mentor expectations, please visit Stonewall's mentorship page
here.
* All mentors will receive training to better prepare them for the role of helping an incoming students.*