{"id":986,"date":"2025-10-14T13:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/?page_id=986"},"modified":"2025-12-18T08:42:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:42:34","slug":"affinity-groups-overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/building-connections\/affinity-groups\/affinity-groups-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Affinity groups overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Build your community by participating in one UW&#8217;s affinity groups for staff and faculty. These groups foster a sense of community in the workplace where <strong>all employees feel seen, heard and valued<\/strong> and are also a\u00a0great way to build your network and foster connections.<\/p>\n<p>Along with amplifying voices of the groups listed below, affinity groups at the UW provide space for connection, support, and community-building around shared interests. Participation is <strong>open to all UW employees<\/strong>\u2014whether to find community or to support and learn from others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/diversity\/staffdiv\/api\/\">Asian &amp; Pacific Islander American Association<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/diversity\/staffdiv\/blackfs\/\">Black Association<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dsfa.uw.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disability Staff &amp; Faculty Association<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/diversity\/affinity\/glbtqfs\/\"> Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Association<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.uw.edu\/lfsauw\/\">Latinx Association<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/diversity\/staffdiv\/nfs\/\">Native Association<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/building-connections\/affinity-groups\/sfva\/\">Staff and Faculty Veterans Association (SFVA)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For UW Medicine affinity groups, please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/equity.uwmedicine.org\/\">UW Medicine Office of Healthcare Equity webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity (OMA&amp;D) and UW Human Resources (UWHR) partner to support <a href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/policies\/affinitygroups\/\">employee affinity groups<\/a> at the University of Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty and staff affinity groups provide networking opportunities and build community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"parent":83,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-986","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/986\/revisions\/1146"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}