Kandea Mosley ’98

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With both the passage of Proposition 209 and the arrival of a new chancellor, Student Body President Kandea Mosley has led the student community into a new phase of UCLA’s history. Mosley has brought student leaders together to discuss student government’s role and has led new student outreach efforts designed to maintain campus diversity.

A member of both the UCLA College Honors Program and the African American Studies Departmental Honors Program, Mosley expects to graduate magna cum laude. A participant in the UCLA Labor Center’s Redefining the Left Symposium, a round-table discussion on the new labor movement in the United States, Mosley has initiated both a forum between the African American studies department and the University and a research project on the socio-political history of affirmative action. She also researched the history of student involvement at UCLA.

As a chair of the African Student Union, Mosley coordinated such large-scale programs as Pan-African Nite and Hip Hop Explosion. She facilitated staff hiring for the union’s Academic Supports Program and coordinated the UCLA Black Alumni Association’s pre-professional/recruitment project. A regular columnist for NOMMO, the African student’s newsmagazine, Mosley served on the Campus Programming Committee and the Affirmative Action Coalition Steering Committee, which organized a UCLA student response to the University of California’s elimination of affirmative action. In addition, she has participated in Students for Social Justice and on the USAC Council on Diversity and was the affirmative action coordinator for the African Student Union.

As a presenter at the 1996 African American Students Conference, Mosley created educational and cultural awareness activities for high school students interested in attending UCLA. She also co-facilitated self-esteem and study skill workshops for freshmen through the African Education Project. Mosley has tutored and mentored students in a Watts housing project and served as a member of the Metropolitan Alliance, a group of more than 15 citywide organizations that works on community improvement and development issues.