The Campus Y’s First Year Council held an open call for mural submissions in March, asking the UNC community to submit applications for a nature-based mural that “reminds students of the beauty in our surroundings, and the light within ourselves … Continued

Earlier this March, Laura Saavedra Forero (’25) and Megan Murphey (’23) were elected Co-Presidents of the Campus Y for the 2022-2023 school year. We spoke with Laura and Megan about their plans to completely restructure the Campus Y, address collective … Continued

Thomas Mayo graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979 as a Morehead-Cain Scholar. During his time at the Campus Y, he was involved in a tutoring program in local schools, a part of the Y … Continued

Halden Levin (’25) is a first year student at UNC and member of the 2020-2021 Global Gap Year Fellowship. During her gap year, Halden learned Mandarin Chinese, engaged in Zen Buddhism, and supported the disability community. She studied Mandarin Chinese … Continued

On Friday March 4th, the Campus Y launched their first official podcast, Social Justice Stories! In our first episode, we talk to Jaki Bonilla (’12), the Social Innovations Coordinator at the Campus Y about the power of connection, what it means to come … Continued

This year, the Campus Y is celebrating ten years of the Bonner Leaders Program at UNC- Chapel Hill. The Bonner Leaders Program is a four-year service-based scholarship program that allows students to earn their work study funds while serving in … Continued

Like most college students, going to school online in the midst of a pandemic wasn’t easy for Sonia Rao (’24). During her sophomore year at UNC in 2020, Rao was living off-campus in Chapel Hill, working for The Daily Tar … Continued

On August 26, UNC announced Yalitza Ramos as the new director of the Campus Y. After earning bachelors’ degrees in Psychology and Spanish from UNC in 2005 and earning her master’s in social work from UNC in 2014, Yalitza returned … Continued

  Sophia Hutchens (’20) graduated this May from UNC with degrees in Communication Studies and Anthropology. In addition to her role as Co-Director of Communication for the Campus Y, Hutchens was the program assistant for the Southern Oral History Program … Continued

During his senior year of high school, Jake Gerardi applied to 25 different colleges and universities. It was never a question of if he was going to school—it was a question of where. But when he was accepted to the … Continued