👨🏽 He/Him | ❇️ Positive Change Agent 💎 Forever (un)learning + growing 🏫 Higher Education Professional 📖 Ph.D. Student: HR & Higher Ed Leadership 📸 Travel IG: @razachronicles 📸 Profile picture description: A dashing South Asian young man smiling with short black hair, wearing a black shirt and grey sports coat on a dark grey background. 🔆 Currently residing on the stolen, traditional, and ancestral lands of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations and Peoples. 📍 Fort Collins, CO 🧠 Decolonize ✊🏽 #BlackLivesMatter 🙏🏽 #AsiansUnite 🦠 #WearAMask 🚨 white supremacy MUST be called out 🚨 ⚙️ The system is working as intended 💣 We need big, structural change 🔐💡“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time; but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” - Lilla Watson 🔐💡“For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” - Audre Lorde 🔐💡”The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression.” - bell hooks 🔐💡“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” - Fannie Lou Hamer 🔐💡“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.” - James Baldwin 🐏 Colorado State University Ram (📍) 🤘🏽 UT-Austin Texas Exes Life Member (B.A.) 🍢 Florida State University LifeNet (M.S.) Learner | Achiever | Developer | Includer | Positivity 🔺🔱 YITBOS 🇵🇰 🇺🇸 Desi. ⚙️ ENFJ. 👨🏽‍🏫 Educator. ⚖️ Politics. 🏈 Sports. 🌎 Traveler. ↗️ Progressive. 🔳 Accomplice. 💞 People & Culture. 🔄 Equity Minded. 🔺 Change Agent. 🟤 Indigenous Rights. ✅ Social Justice. 🏡 Housing Justice. 🌍 Climate Justice. ‼️ Racial Justice. ⚧ Gender Equity. ♾ Human Rights. ❤️ Community Care. 🏥 Medicare for All. 🟢 Green New Deal. 💵 Personal Finance. 📈 Growth Mindset. 🥘 Amateur Foodie. 🥾 Life Journeyer. 🍻 Breweries. 🏔 Outdoors. 🎙 Podcasts. 🌌 Universe. 📚 Learner. 🔮 Futurist. 📱 Tech. 💯 I aim to use this space to connect with people, widen my perspectives, and add value. Actively learning how to align & leverage my lived experiences, skills, and values to create positive change in our world. ✳️ Moderator 📝 Research interests: Desi South Asians, identity development, graduate & new professional socialization, selective admissions, org leadership, culture, & change 🎯 Views are my own. ⬇️ 🔊 Reach out, and let’s connect! 🔗 www.linkedin.com/in/aliraza123 🗓 calendly.com/aliraza123