Lydia (she/her) provides leadership to the Office of Black Student Affairs to ensure the delivery of student centered, intentional and inclusive services at The Claremont Colleges. She is from New York City and attended high school at Convent of the Sacred Heart. She obtained her BA in English from Wellesley College and MA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where she also began her career in higher education. She designs OBSA’s staff work plans, directs OBSA’s key initiatives and cultivates partnerships with students, faculty, staff and alumni across the colleges. In her free time she is a consultant, nonprofit board member and momager.

Latreace is from Pomona and graduated from Montclair High School. She attended Chaffey College and transferred to the University of Southern California, where she ran cross country and track and field for the Trojans. Latreace has a B.A. and M.S. from USC and Ed.D. from Azusa Pacific University. On behalf of OBSA, Dr. Cox supervises staff, develops OBSA’s career and opportunities programming, provides advising and support to individual students and student organizations. She also initiates OBSA’s major events and leads and sustains OBSA’s many campus partnerships. Latreace enjoys community service, crafting, being a sports mom and singing.

Ahlam is a junior double majoring in Math and Economics. In her free time, she enjoys listening to music, collecting CDs, and biking. At OBSA, Ahlam’s primary roles are supporting the OBSA mentorship program’s activities, leading off campus events, and collaborating with Scripps SCORE and Watu Weusi.

Rahim is a junior at Pitzer College, double majoring in International Political Economy and Africana studies! He loves to sing (he’s a member of the Earth Tone’s a capella group alongside Ryann), play basketball, read, and has a passion for creative writing, photography, and film/cinematography. Rahim is the founder of Blaremont Mag and the Black Visionary Project, a grant for student multi-hyphenates. He also co-curates the OBSA student art gallery and designs visual elements for OBSA’s creative campaigns.

Ryann is a Scripps junior hailing from Dallas, Texas. She is an avid lover of books, poetry, art, theatre, social justice, community engagement and music (see her singing with Earth Tones, Claremont’s all-Black student a cappella group!). As a writing and rhetoric major, she aims to pursue a career as an author, a literary educator, and a lifelong artist. Ryann is OBSA’s marketing and outreach fellow, designs campaigns for our e-news and social media and supports OBSA’s major events.

Se’maj is a senior and Miami Scholar studying Sociology on the Pre-Law track at Pomona College. Stemming from her interests in law and spatial theory, she serves as an Associate Chair for Pomona College’s Judicial Council, an Elections Web-Scraper for the Associated Press, and an Intern for Project Destined Global Real Estate Academy. Her hobbies include bleach painting, playing pickleball, and trying new cuisines. Se’maj recently led Black Alternabreak and now supports OBSA’s major initiatives including local service projects, cultural events and educational programming.

Werlie (she/her) is a senior at Pomona from Orlando, Florida studying PPE, with an Africana studies minor. On campus, she is an admissions intern, a coordinator for the Draper Center, and now a programming fellow for OBSA. Some of her favorite past times are dancing, crocheting, reading, and watching an unhealthy amount of TV. She has previously co-led OBSA/Draper Center Alternabreak, and is a founding organizer of OBSA’s annual Halloween bash. Her other work includes founding and curating OBSA’s annual student art gallery, designing OBSA’s interior spaces and supporting OBSA’s major events.