Students

Many Secondary students participate in student-led affinity and alliance groups which provide spaces for individuals to come together in celebration of a shared identity that has been historically underrepresented at the Lycée. Student leaders of these groups develop their leadership skills by facilitating meetings where group members celebrate their shared identities, share their experiences, plan school-wide events, and provide each other with peer support as they learn to practice empathy and foster belonging.

Each student-led affinity group is supported by a trained adult advisor who either shares the same affinity or is an ally of the group. Student leaders stand behind their motto, "If you're not uncomfortable, you're not learning," as they work with maturity to confront the challenges facing themselves, classmates and our society.

Club members are active leaders in developing programs for the Secondary School, including:

Leadership and planning in collaboration with the DEIB Team and the Secondary English Department of the annual James Baldwin Day program for high-school students
Workshops on race relations, immigration, (dis)ability, gender and women's rights for students at all grade levels in Secondary,
Mental health awareness and destigmatization, through trainings, workshops and zines
LBGTQ+ Day of Silence, OUT for Safe Schools training for faculty and staff
Black Lives Matter community action
Participation in student leadership conferences, including NAIS Student Civic Leadership Summit and the The Dalton Conference
Cultural Center programming
They also publish a monthly newsletter, covering topics from the Black Lives Matter movement to intersectionality in our everyday lives.

The Coalition

Student activities are organized in an umbrella organization, The Coalition, comprising student co-leaders of all affinity/alliance groups. This group meets regularly to steer the work of the affinity groups throughout the year to collaborate on joint events that celebrate the Lycée's diversity, practice civic leadership and dialogue, and provide feedback to the administration as a unified body of student leaders.

The Lycée's student affinity and alliance groups are: