Whether a first-year, transfer, or graduating senior, a student doesn’t always feel connected or part of a community on campus. Some students may not know how to get involved or think that there is not a place for them to fit in.

A step into the Women’s Resource Center might change that.

The resource center advocates a safe zone for students to converse and find a community they can connect with.

The Women’s Resource Center put on a cupcake mixer in the Multi-Cultural Center on campus Feb. 24 where different club members, and anybody else interested, could find information on other women organizations on campus.

Members from organizations like American Association of University Women, Student California Teachers Association, Native American Club, La Contra, MEChA and Advocates of Black Feminism all came to talk about what they aim to do and the events they are holding on campus.

“I felt like we have a lot of [organizations] on campus, women [organizations] particularly and clubs,” said Aisha Engle, coordinator of the event. “We all kind of do our own thing, and we’re kind of disjointed in that way, and I wanted to create a collaboration where we could build solidarity.”

This is Engle’s second semester being a student assistant for the Women’s Resource Center. She is also the president of Advocates of Black Feminism. She said she hoped it would be a space for women who aren’t necessarily in a club or organization to come and see where they fit in and provide them a social platform.

“We create programming that caters to voices of the margins, people that are underrepresented or we need to dialogue about some of the marginalized voices here on campus and this is that environment where that happens, like the PRIDE Center, the Multi-Cultural Center and the Women’s Resource Center,” Engle said.

Helping out with the event was first-year transfer student Zobeida Mendez, who is part of La Contra- which means “going against.” They talk about multi-cultural feminist issues and offer a space for women to come together of all identities.

Mendez said the Women’s Resource Center is a good place for women and any other student- no matter the gender- to come and get help with any type of issue and are provided with genuine help by people who care.

“A lot of people were saying that we hope we can spread the gender [equality], the gender spectrum further than just the binary of man and woman, because there are transgender, there are intersex people, there are human beings, so in that sense too the Women’s Resource Center represents spaces for people that don’t fit the binary of men and women,” said Aja Johnson.

Johnson, a student at Sacramento State, is an active member in the Advocates of Black Feminism and the Women’s Resource Center.

Johnson said the Women’s Resource Center is a space where people can come to talk about issues they don’t always feel comfortable to talk about like gender, race and violence.

“I think for me it was just nice to see people come in who aren’t necessarily involved in clubs and stuff yet, but are looking for where they fit in and find clubs that speak to them,” said Johnson.

The Women’s Resource Center can provide educational, informational and emotional help or advice for students on campus, welcoming all genders. The cupcake mixer gave the opportunity for students to vocalize what they want to see the Women’s Resource Center do more of and to make bridges of communications between the different organizations on campus.

“I hope that they will be able to develop their consciousness that they’d be able to recognize the inequities that women face, and also being able to connect to a community,” said Engle. “That they would be able to leap out of their classrooms, and leap out of just going back and forth to a class and become plugged into the centers.”