Day, an American studies major and scholar in the college´s Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy, is committed to working for social justice and racial equality. A native of Williamsburg, Mass., Day has focused her efforts on working with children and adolescents through organizations like the Southeastern Connecticut Women´s Center, as a tutor with the Upward Bound Program and as a trained PeaceJam mentor, facilitating workshops on violence, oppression and peacemaking.

"It´s so important to me that youth of all colors are given the absolute best that life has to offer," she said.