Kai Mason (Class of 2019) is majoring in English. Kai’s passion for immersing herself in diverse cross-cultural spaces led her to take on campus roles such as Dialogue Facilitator, President of U of M Slam Poetry, and optiMize Fellow. These experiences, combined with her academic work, have focused her thinking about social identities and their representation and provided the basis for her Honors in the Engaged Liberal Arts (HELA) project: the creation of imi, a magazine that works to bring socioeconomic diversity and visibility to fashion. In imi, Kai urges people to consider how much more inclusive the world of fashion might be. Kai is the first student to participate in Honors’ new HELA graduation program.
