The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/vijay-pendakur/)
Cornell’s undocumented and DACA community has been navigating the coronavirus crisis that has uprooted students’ jobs and futures — without dedicated administrative staff to lean on for support.
Dean of Students Vijay Pendakur is leaving Cornell after more than three years, which he spent working on diversity initiatives, helping Cornell respond to COVID-19 and providing financial support through the Access Fund.
“The main goal is to really educate people on unconscious bias, the way all we make snap judgments on the way people look and sound,” tour coordinator Anthony Petrowski told The Sun.
“By virtue of being different — being Indian in an all black neighborhood — my sister and I felt like we had targets on our backs,” he said.