Programs & Events

The AfroHeal Initiative

The Trotter Multicultural Center has launched AfroHeal, an initiative aimed at enhancing the experiences and representation of Black students in response to U-M's DEI 2.0 Campus-wide Item. AfroHeal provides transformative experiences, including retreats, pilgrimages, and healing-centered engagements, and will introduce a partnership offering on-site access to a therapist specializing in racial trauma.

CommuniTEA

CommuniTea is a weekly tea gathering for students, staff, and faculty to build community and share information about what they are experiencing during the week. Students often meet and greet with each other to form connections and friendships.

F.A.M. Fridays

F.A.M. Fridays is a throwback program series that was relaunched to celebrate culture through Food, Art & Music. On the second Friday of each month, we explore the different cultural foods our campus community and the larger Ann Arbor community has to offer. The series also showcases student creativity in art and music and seeks to amplify student voices from marginalized communities and build community through cultural exchange.

Faith, Race, and Equity Encounter (F.R.E.E.)

The Faith, Race, & Equity Encounter (F.R.E.E.) is a semester-long cohort experience that helps participants understand the intersections of their religious, spiritual, and/or secular (RSS) identity(ies), their pursuit of justice and equity, and sense of possibility. In alignment with each of TMC's Core Work Pillars, F.R.E.E. seeks to equip students with the knowledge and tools they need to recognize and disrupt inequity, its long-term impacts, and ultimately be the change they want to see in the world. Utilizing a multitude of meeting styles, students should walk away from this experience empowered in their identity, informed by intergenerational knowledge, and inspired to act on the inequities that most compel them.

How to Flourish

How to Flourish is a series of workshops hosted by Trotter Multicultural Center to help incoming undergraduate and graduate students “flourish” by exploring the different dimensions of the Wolverine Wellness Wheel. Using the Wellness Wheel model developed by the University Health Service's Wolverine Wellness program, we discuss the importance of holistic well-being while acknowledging how a student’s identity, culture, and heritage can affect their wellness experience.

Soul Food Sundays

Soul Food Sundays is an event dedicated to honoring the history and traditions of soul food, dating back centuries within the African diaspora. It is a time for students, faculty, and staff of all identities, to come together in recognition and celebration of the African people and African American culture, and its tradition of Sunday gatherings at the home of the family matriarch. Through bread breaking, music, dance, and conversation let us all shine a light on the humble and welcoming love within the Black community.

Student Ambassador Collective

The purpose of the Student Ambassador Collective is to help the Trotter Multicultural Center Professional Staff inform policies and procedures, safety and security, and the day-to-day operations of Trotter. This Collective is the voice of the students who use and love Trotter. 

Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series

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The Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series is designed to increase healthy discourse and learning throughout the University of Michigan by inviting speakers from the political and public service sectors of national and international note. Our goal is to bring together bright minds with talks that are idea-focused on a wide range of subjects to foster learning, inspiration, and wonder – and provoke conversations that matter to students at the University of Michigan. We want to continue to be a Center that fosters healthy and respectful discourse.

Forthcoming Programs

The Faith, Race, & Equity Encounter (F.R.E.E.) helps participants understand their religious, spiritual and/or secular (RSS) identity(ies) as a source that informs leadership, healing, activism and their sense of possibility.