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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Nobles: Affinity Groups/Alliances

A guide to resources for diversity, equity and inclusion at Nobles, including BIPOC student support, opportunities and events

2017 graduates-to-be at the Freeman Legacy DinnerAffinity groups are a group of people linked by a shared experience or purpose.

At Nobles, our current affinity groups are organized around racial, ethnic, religious, and gender shared experiences and they are student-led with support from faculty and staff advisors. If you are interested in joining an affinity group, please reach out to one of the faculty advisors for more information.

Nobles Affinity Groups

A2A (Asian 2 Asian)
Faculty Advisor: Aneesa Sen, Nahyon Lee
Student Leaders: Angie Feng ’24, Chris Xue ’24, Krishnan Menon ’25, Jayden Yee ’25, Kaitlyn Shi ’25

A2A (Asian to Asian) is an affinity group for students of Asian and Pacific Islander descent to openly discuss issues regarding culture, race, and identity. The goal is to create a welcoming and inclusive community for students to share stories, bond over similar experiences, and offer advice to each other.
B2B (Brother 2 Brother)
Faculty Advisor: Edgar De Leon ’04 
Student Leaders: Noah Douglas ’25, Sheehan Pierre-Louis ’24, Nathan Nozea ’25, Akhil Janapareddy ’25, Jayden Yee ’25, Abdirizak Abdulle ’25

B2B (Brother 2 Brother) is a group for young men of color at Nobles. The goal is to create a cohesive, tight-knit community among men of color at the school that will ultimately lead to greater involvement in the broader Nobles community. The group also aims to create mentoring opportunities for Nobles upperclassmen within the Nobles community and outside of it as well.

S2S (Sister 2 Sister)
Faculty Advisors: LaTasha Sarpy and Mariah Oates
Student Leaders: Nina Rosa ’25, Tahira Muhammad ’24, Jissel Rodriguez ’24, Kaitlyn Shi ’25, Valeria Yepes ’25, Jasmyn Cooper ’25, Mackenzie Ellis ’25, Morgan Gibson ’25, Hermione Arias Soto ’24

Sister 2 Sister (S2S) is an affinity group where people who identify as womxn of color at Nobles can come and voice their opinions on a variety of issues that affect womxn through social, political, and educational means. S2S strives to offer its members the platform to further their social, emotional, psychological, academic, and political growth. Our focus is to build connections between womxn of color in this community and to develop a network of support.
East Asian and Pacific Islander (EAPI)
Faculty Advisors: Nahyon Lee 
Student Leaders: Angie Feng ’24, Chris Xue ’24, Jayden Yee ’25, Kaitlyn Shi ’25, Jerry Qin ’24, Kevin Huang ’24

EAPI is an affinity group for students of East Asian and Pacific Islander descent to openly discuss issues regarding culture, race, and identity. The goal is to create a welcoming and inclusive community for students to share stories, bond over similar experiences, and offer advice to each other.
Q2Q (Queer 2 Queer)
Faculty Advisors: Talya Sokoll and Michael Polebaum ’08

Q2Q is an affinity group on campus for students who identify as LGBTQ+, and is open to both upper schoolers and middle schoolers. Email lists are kept confidential and coming to this group is a great way to learn about and share your own experiences as being a member of the LGBTQ+ community both at Nobles and in the world.
Kehilla
Faculty Advisors: Talya Sokoll and Michael Polebaum ’08
Student Leaders: Joshua Levine ’24, Asher Bernstein ’24, Jonas Zatlyn-Weiner ’25, Raquel Frankel ’25, Lily Comander ’25, Ben Myers ’25

Kehilla, Nobles’ Jewish Affinity Group, cultivates pride in Jewish identity, creates a safe space for Jewish students, and fosters discussion around antisemitism.
Black Student Union
Faculty Advisors: LaTasha Sarpy and Mariah Oates
Student Leaders: Sheehan Pierre-Louis ’24, Tahira Muhammad ’24, Nasi Simmons ’24, CJ Achebe ’24, Morgan Gibson ’25, Noah Douglas ’25, Jordyn Julien ’25

Black Student Union is an affinity group for Black/African American students to openly discuss issues regarding culture, race and identity. The goal is to create a welcoming and inclusive community for students to share stories, bond over similar experiences and offer advice to each other.

Poder (Latinx group)
Faculty Advisor: Edgar De Leon
Student Leaders: Nina Rosa ’25, Jissel Rodriguez ’24, Hermione Arias Soto ’24, Val Gualdron ’24, Elisa Fitzgerald ’25, Sebastian Ortiz ’24

Poder is an affinity group for Latinx students to openly discuss issues regarding culture, race, and identity. The goal is to create a welcoming and inclusive community for students to share stories, bond over similar experiences and offer advice to each other.

Mosaic (multiracial group)
Faculty Advisors: Kim Neal, Violet Richard
Student Leaders: Olivia Charity ’25, Will Hesp ’24, Lauren Yoon ’24, Lara Sahagun ’26

Mosaic is an affinity group for multiracial-identifying students. Mosaic aims to create a welcoming environment to hold conversations about our experiences as multiracial students at Nobles and in the broader community, and to learn about the diverse cultures within our affinity group. 

South Asian Student Affinity Group
Faculty Advisor: Aneesa Sen
Student Leaders: Shrisay Reddy ’24, Shivani Gulati Class ’24, Rohin Pinisetti Class ’25, Krishnan Menon ’25, Arthi Vithiananthan ’25

SAAG is an affinity group for students of South Asian descent to openly discuss issues regarding culture, race, and identity. The goal is to create a welcoming and inclusive community for students to share stories, bond over similar experiences, and offer advice to each other.

Muslim Affinity Group
Faculty Advisor: Amadou Seck
Student leader: Abdirizak Abdulle

This is a group for students who identify as Muslim to discuss issues of religion, race, culture, and identity. The goal is to create a welcoming and inclusive community for students to share stories, bond over similar experiences and offer advice to each other.

Middle East Affinity Group
Faculty Advisor: Zeynep Isvan 
Student leaders: Ollie Donovan ’25, George Kasparyan ’24

This is a group for students who identify as Middle Eastern to discuss issues of religion, race, culture, and identity. The goal is to create a welcoming and inclusive community for students to share stories, bond over similar experiences and offer advice to each other.

For more information about any of these newer groups, please contact Per Sen or Mr. De Leon.

Alliances

White Antiracist Group
This group holds discussions around racism, bias and whiteness, to become more active, responsible and knowledgeable antiracist citizens and members of the Nobles community.

Neurodiversity Alliance
Neurodiversity refers to the different ways that our brains learn/function. This is an alliance space, an inclusive space where we can come together and discuss strategies for success, tips for learning, how to live, work, and learn with a variety of neurodiversity and raise awareness and celebrate the diverse ways our brains work. This space is open to our entire school community.