Ahoo Tabatabai
Student, Department of Sociology
Diversity Education Program Coordinator for Student Activities and Leadership Development
5 years with UC Community

Ahoo Tabatabai is heavily involved in student life through her position as Program Coordinator for Diversity Education for Student Activities and Leadership Development.  We recently asked Tabatabai to share some of her thoughts and motivations as a woman in leadership with the campus community.  Her candid responses follow…

 UCWC: What do you wish someone had told you earlier in life?

AT: I wish someone had told me to take my time, to not rush through experiences, good or bad.

UCWC: Where would you like to see women move to socio-economically in the coming years?

AT: I would like to live to see a world in which all those who contribute to the creation of profit get to share it.

UCWC: Where do you see your generation contributing to the empowerment of women?

AT: I think perhaps women in my generation are able to see more clearly that you can never experience gender outside of race, class, sexuality, etc. We always embody many selves and none is independently meaningful. I hope we can contribute the idea that "being" is not enough. We need action. We need "doing." So if we see inequality, we can't expect our presence alone to be the change. We need to actively seek out equality. Otherwise we will pay the price of our silence and idleness.

UCWC: Whom do you admire presently?

AT: These days I'm in the writings of Arhundati Roy. She has the ability to communicate complex ideas with very simple language. She has tremendous compassion for humanity. I love the fact that one cannot read her writing and walk away unchanged from it.

The UC Women’s Center is proud to recognize Ahoo Tabatbai’s contributions to campus.