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**History**Founded in October 2021, The Beauty of Intelligence emerged in response to our observation that education is a human right restricted around the globe. Many historical efforts to increase educational access simultaneously pose barriers to aspiring students by introducing new, required mediums between the institution and the applicant. We developed a foundation that provides resources directly to students and provides community-based feedback to higher education institutions on matters pertaining to equity, access, and belonging.
**Commitment**The Beauty of Intelligence is a charitable foundation dedicated to the advancement of educational access and equity, focusing primarily on awarding scholarships to college students enrolled in the United States. Our community of higher education specialists, board of directors, and board advisors is a voluntary team with demonstrated lifelong commitments to human rights.
**Vision**The Beauty of Intelligence currently serves the Southern California and Greater Boston areas, with efforts currently underway to expand globally. Our vision is to curate a comprehensive support system for aspiring students around the world that allows for enrollment at any institution of their choice.
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### About Me
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| Portrait by Rachel Moss[click to enlarge view] |
*Hi!* My name is maisune (ميسون) and I am passionate about education, public service, civic engagement, training and development, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. My work spans from the West Coast to the East Coast of the United States and across the Atlantic Ocean to the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. This site is split between sharing my professional background and sharing my young, charitable foundation The Beauty of Intelligence. I am happy to connect for dialogue, presentations, foundation support, and related opportunities.
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### Experiences
### DEI and Belonging
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Education
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Education has been my primary focus in the fields I have served in whether that is health and human services for refugee and immigrant families or advocacy within college student affairs. Education is a tool for learning and a tool for power, as demonstrated through curricular decisions, political censorship, and world history. Throughout my various roles and opportunities, I have researched and developed trainings and presentations on a variety of DEIB topics including but not limited to: intersectionality and identity development, allyship and activism, implicit bias in crisis response, Islamophobia and xenophobia, and engaging across difference.
Please review some excerpts from my research. You may click on the images to enlarge view.
| **Results from IRB-study on Student-Parent Commuters[Click to enlarge view.]** |
| **Excerpt from Counseling Techniques for Non-Counselors[Click to enlarge view.]** |
| **Excerpt from Islamophobia and Allyship training for professional and paraprofessional staff members[Click to enlarge view.]** |
| **Excerpt from Intersectionality in Identities training for residential life staff[Click to enlarge view.]** |
I would be happy to educate and tailor my presentation to your organizational needs, . If you are a student, or growing on your DEI journey, please  and I would be happy to discuss how I can best support you.
### Higher Education
| **Brown University Civic Engagement Fellows, 2022[Click to enlarge view]** |
**Non-Partisan Civic Engagement Among Students**
My higher education philosophy is deeply informed by psychosocial identity development theory and I find myself quoting Baxter Magolda's self-authorship framework on a daily basis. Students are the drivers of their own lives and we as support staff professionals are the passengers providing adequate GPS directions. We don't decide the destination of students' journeys; the students do and we provide them the support to reach those destinations. This was the prevailing framework when we institutionalized a student initiative, Brown Votes, at Brown University to be a cross-campus collaboration with leading administrators, faculty, staff, students and Providence community members. Through the Office of Residential Life, I inaugurated a partnership with the Brown Swearer Center for Public Service to support our civic engagement fellows as they encourage non-partisan activity for students both on- and off-campus.
**Student Development and Community Building**
| **Brown University Direct Reports, 2021[Click to enlarge view]** |
To broaden my student affairs development and continue contributing to the country-wide goal of supporting undergraduate students amidst a pandemic, I joined Brown University as an Area Coordinator. As part of the Greek, Program, and Theme House Team under the Office of Residential Life, I oversee 25 identity-based and affinity-based communities on campus for over 1600 residential students. In my direct supervision of Community Coordinators, I support paraprofessional staff in fostering community building, developing engaging student programming, and creating a vision for the legacy of their individually, unique communities.
**Practice to Theory to Practice**
At Chapman University, I began as a Residential Education Assessment Facilitator who was tasked with the comprehensive assessment of the Hall Council initiative in the Residence Life and First Year
| **Chapman Grand Staff, 2019[Click to enlarge view]** |
Experience department. Through individual interviews, focus groups, and surveys with residents, elected student leaders, and department professional staff, I compiled an 80-page report with findings, implications, recommendations, and comparisons to other successful institutions with similar initiatives. This inspired the relaunch of the initiative as Community Council, and became a practice-theory-practice tool utilized among resident directors and advisors. In the following months, I was hired as a Graduate Resident Director and served as an advisor for the Chapman Grand Community Council, developing a leadership plan for elected student leaders and peer GRD advisors. This was in addition to my experience in on-call responsibilities, supervision of resident advisors and office assistants, serving as a student conduct officer, and leading the staff training and development committee for two years.
| **GradFest advertisement at CSUF, 2020[Click to enlarge view]** |
**Undergraduate and Graduate Programs**
"Once a Titan, always a Titan!" I am proud to be a first-generation graduate from CSUF. In 2017, I completed a Bachelor of Arts in Communications degree with a minor in Psychology and graduated *cum laud*e. In 2019, I completed a Master of Science in Education degree with an emphasis in Higher Education and graduated *magna cum laude*. My campus activities include but are not limited to Associated Students, Inc., CommWeek Conference, Newport Beach Film Festival, Entertainment and Tourism Club, Muslim Student Association, Students for Justice in Palestine, Higher Education Leadership Organization, Academic Senate, and the National Association for Down Syndrome - Fullerton Chapter. I have graciously been awarded the Women's History Month Scholarship, Dean's List, William G. Pollock Scholarship, Asian Pacific Islander Faculty Association Scholarship, Department of Communications Leadership Award, Harvey A. McKee Distinguished Student Leader Scholarship, and the Bergstrom Family Scholarship Endowment.