An Eastern graduate student is doing her part to help change people’s acceptance and tolerance of different cultures.

Veronica Perez, a second year clinical psychology graduate student, will host a diversity workshop at 7:30 p.m. in the Effingham Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

“[The workshop] is designed to raise self-awareness and critical thinking on a variety of diversity issues,” Perez said.”These diversity issues involve, ethnic, religious, economic and even personality differences.”

How does someone change the way they view others with the above-mentioned differences?

Perez’s curriculum will make use of a variety of individual and group projects geared toward appreciating diverse thinking and attitudes.

“The first step to raising awareness is to talk about it,” Perez said, pointing out that things are much easier to discuss when there are people of similar backgrounds and situations present.

Perez also said she credits the university’s programming for the positive state of campus diversity.

“It’s not quite Chicago, but it seems to be accepted,” Perez said of diversity on campus.