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1st Cohort

Chalchiuhkoatle Kardos

Adam Levin

Sofia Snow

Danez Smith

Allen Arango

Ben Young

Blaire White

Cecila Leon

Daniel Dharam

Dominique Chestand

Gayle Smaller

Jair Alvarez

Kelsey Van Ert

Kimanh Truong-Munoz

Lana Simpson

Founded in 2005, the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI) is a unit of the Division of Diversity, Equity, & Educational Achievement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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