Purpose. The "BAM! (BIPOC Affirming and Mentoring)" Graduate and Professional Student Mentoring Program is designed to create pathways of mentorship and sponsorship for awards, fellowships, and promotion of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) students’ academic careers that is co-sponsored by the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, and the Office of Multicultural Affairs. This program is specifically designed for full-time, New Orleans residential graduate and/or doctoral students. This program will include 2 in-person and 2 virtual cohort sessions per semester, across 1 academic year. Each session will be on a Saturday. You will see some questions regarding your demographic information so we can track the extent to which we are serving the entire Tulane community (you do not have to answer these questions, however they can better help us understand each cohort population).