Calandra “CeCe” McGee ’15, from Chicago (60643), has been elected to the Denison University Board of Trustees as the recent student trustee. McGee will assume her position on the board July 1, 2015. McGee is a women’s studies and black studies double major, who also is minoring in biology and acquiring a concentration in queer studies.
“In her interviews for this role, CeCe spoke powerfully about how different elements of her identity, and the intersections between these, shaped her Denison experience,” said Denison President Adam Weinberg. “These perspectives will inform CeCe’s representation of students as a member of the Board.”
“I want to help us understand how the identities of students and faculty interact with each other across gender, race, class and sexuality,” said McGee. “As Denison becomes more diverse, we need to create a single source that can address all these issues — which by their nature overlap with one another and affect each other.”
In addition to her academic work, McGee has served on campus in leadership positions in Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority, Inc. the Multicultural Greek Council and in the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honorary Society. McGee has been a resident assistant and a fellow in the Women Studies Program and Black Studies Program, and her scholarship has been recognized with a Nan Nowik Memorial Award and a Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship. She also has regularly volunteered with the New Beginnings domestic violence shelter, Nursing Home Companions and the Relay For Life, and she has been a committed member of Safe Zone and SHARE.
McGee is quite humble about her newest volunteer work on Denison’s Board of Trustees.
“I feel the weight of this position. I recognize that it will be a lot of hard work, speaking for students whose voices are not always at the forefront on Denison’s campus, and outside in the real world.”