The Women of Color Retreat works to create a community focused on finding meaning, healing, support and trust amongst students in the NC State community. Our purpose is to help all participants move towards actualization by focusing on the inner parts of the self. Furthermore, the broad goal of the retreat is to create a space where student women of color, in particular, can express themselves, explore their multiple realities and intersecting identities and discover and critically examine the intricacies of their own agency, leadership, solidarity, sisterhood and scholarship.