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CU Resources

Below is a list of resources and diversity groups available at CU Boulder and from external organizations. We will try to keep this as up-to-date as possible! Feel free to contact us to add your own resource recommendations at jilajedi@jila.colorado.edu.

Mental Health

Victims’ Assistance and Interpersonal Assistance

Informal Incident Reporting and Mediation

Options for when your desired outcome is increased support for yourself, a mediated conversation with someone, or contributing to an incident log.

  • Ombudspeople: People who can receive confidential complaints and can help you choose how you want to move forward. There are two Ombudspeople at JILA—Beth Kroger and Andrew Hamilton— and many at the CU level. They can help you log incidents or mediate a conversation. Please note that JILA Ombuds are mandatory reporters for harassment and discrimination, but University Ombuds are totally confidential.

  • OVA (Office of Victims Assistance) can help manage situations of harassment, discrimination, and abuse, as well as traumatic events such as deaths, serious injuries, and the aftermath of other disruptive events.

Formal Incident Reporting

Legal services and options for when you think an incident merits consequences for the aggressor. Please note that mandatory reporters MUST report incidents to OIEC.

  • Ombudspeople: People who can receive confidential complaints and can help you choose how you want to move forward. There are two Ombudspeople at JILA, and many at the CU level. They can also help you understand your legal options.

  • OVA (Office of Victims Assistance) can help manage situations of harassment, discrimination, and abuse, as well as traumatic events such as deaths, serious injuries, and the aftermath of other disruptive events. They can also help you understand your legal options.

  • Student Legal Services can help you learn about legal options and navigate your chosen course of action. The legal help they provide can help protect you in the event of issues with healthcare/malpractice, housing, abuse, and other situations.

  • OIEC (Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance): A confidential resource to report instances of harassment and discrimination.

Trauma Assistance

Other Useful Resources

Community Support

Allyship Groups and Training Workshops

Community Engagement

STEM

External Resources

Diversity Groups

STEM

Mental Health and Addiction

Domestic Violence, Abuse and Sexual Assault

Homelessness and Other

Resources by Group

LGBTQ+

Teens

Children

Accessibility and Disability Services

Women of Color

Latina/Latino

Immigrant

Indigenous

Asian/Pacific Islander

African American

Men

Elderly / Later Life

Educational Resources

Books

  • I am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism by Lee Maracle

  • Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini

  • Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini

  • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

  • Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio

  • How to Be Black by Baratunde Thurston

Articles

Podcasts

Videos