Among several new clubs founded this year at Chaminade is the Diversity Club. Founded by Jayden Love and sponsored by Ms. Wright, the club aims to represent the diversity of Chaminade and raise awareness on the subject. I sat down with Ms. Wright, Chaminade’s director of diversity, and Jayden Love, ’25, to get a better understanding of both the background of the club and its future plans.  

I began the conversation by asking Jayden, “what prompted you to start the club, and how did you choose and go about the process with Mrs. Wright?”  

“I came up with the idea second semester of junior year,” Jayden said, after being inspired by a project in his public speaking class to start a new club. “So then I was wondering; what type of club would I start?”  

For Jayden this question had a natural answer: “I was in [Ms. Wright’s] office like every day. She’s the director of diversity. I want to work with her.”  

From this point, the club began to take shape as Ms. Wright explained, “When we talked, we wanted this to be student-led.”  

“Teachers give students instructions all the time,” but the diversity club was to be a way for students to take leadership and give instructions. 

She also explained another reason for the focus on a student-led club: “[us] wanting students to care about something that’s important to them, and then be able to help other students care about something that’s important.”  

I then asked Ms. Wright what the goal or main focus of the diversity club was.

“We thought it should represent the diversity of Chaminade, as people don’t often know that Chaminade is a very diverse place,” she said.  

She went on further to explain what diversity itself means within the school: “Not just race, ethnicity, but also as it relates to neurodiversity, as it relates to culture, as it relates to religion.” She explained that neurodiversity refers to the differences between people in the way their brains work, such as learning preferences.  

Ms. Wright explained what she and Jayden wanted the club to be when they first began planning it. “We envisioned it to be people of all different diversities coming together to create initiatives and awareness around our school of what the diversity is.” 

I followed up on this question by asking what the current state of diversity club is and its immediate plans. “We are definitely in the planning and forming process,” she said, telling how despite the lack of any real roadmap in creating a club they had just held their first meeting in November, where an idea came up in relation to the dorm students. 

“One of the things we were looking forward to doing was to help our resident program.” She explained that they were looking to raise a group of people to help the dormers with the move from the old to new dorms. “Think about when you would move into a new house, you and I would probably have friends and family to help us, they do not have that.”  

Ms. Wright explained their reasoning behind this plan as a celebration of the diversity of the dorm students within Chaminade. “How do you embrace who is here, and then acknowledge them and honor them as a person,” she proposed when thinking about individuals and groups within the wider Chaminade community.  

My final question to Ms. Wright was “what would you say to anyone thinking about joining Diversity Club.”  

Her response: “Diversity club is for everyone. No one is excluded.” She invited anyone to come out to the next meeting, with a specific emphasis on keeping an open mind about the club.  

Anyone interested in one of Chaminade’s newest clubs that celebrates and encourages the school’s diversity can join for the club’s next meeting, January 8.