Hello! On Saturday, February 1, Soka had its first Students of Color Conference. Our university has been having a campus-wide conversation about race that is centered around the student movement for ethnic studies. As a white student, I was there to listen and learn, and not to participate. As the writer of a personal blog, I am not writing this blog post to create a journalistic account of this event. Instead, I want to reflect on my own experience, make use of my 10 pages of notes, and re-establish the habit of writing on topics other than my Capstone. For a more journalistic account, I highly recommend Casey Chaffin's article on the conference for The Pearl, Soka's student newspaper. On the Pearl's website, you can find many other articles (such as this one from Abbie Malabuyoc) to get you up to speed on the student movement. The day started off at 9 AM with a panel called "Students of Color and Scholar Activism in the Struggle for World Freedom" with fou