Student Equity Councils

2025-2026 Student Equity Councils

Student Equity Councils (one at each of our high schools) are student leadership groups that receive training on how to improve diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) at their high schools. SEC members choose sub-projects to promote DEIA activities at their schools. 

The District hosted training workshops in September to onboard new Student Equity Council members for the 2025-2026 school year. The trainings were broken out over three days (students attended one of the three days) from September 16-18 at various locations, and were led by Cindy Dominguez and Rachel Lauderdale (Lead Coordinators for Student Equity Council). School site student equity coordinators were also in attendance with approximately 150 students. The trainings served to onboard new student equity council members and joined student equity council members across the District to build community, and put a lens on what the Student Equity Council does at each school. Students took part in projects that addressed dehumanizing language, sports equity, accessibility and cost barriers.

Students took part in project-based work where they mapped out what projects they wanted to be part of on campus, whether new projects or existing projects (started by SECs from previous years). 

To learn more about Student Equity Councils, contact Julia Kempkey at jkempkey@smuhsd.org.