The Global Engagement Student Group is a space for students to share their identities and lived experiences with each other and members of the UW Study Abroad staff. Our goal in creating this space is to both empower students and strengthen how UW Study Abroad and the Office of Global Affairs carries out its work. This body of students is given the freedom to not only propose improvements to existing programs and services, but to also be visionaries and imagine and co-create with us, things that may not already exist. Each of its members brings their passions and knowledge to the conversations we will have throughout the year and will act as liaisons to the broader student body.