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Mission
- To address the concerns of students from diverse cultural, economic, and ethnic backgrounds, with particular emphasis on students of African and African-American descent.
- To serve as a forum to hear and address the collective concerns of students from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
- To enable students of its members to network with professional students from all the various professional schools and programs at UMB.
- To provide a support system for these students.
- To develop professional leaders within the campus community who will serve as role models and mentors for our youth in the community-at-large.
- To facilitate public discourse on pressing sociopolitical issues facing the African diaspora.
- To showcase and celebrate the ethnic, cultural, and regional diversity of the African diaspora at UMB

Membership Benefits
- All UMB students have the right to actively participate in all USAD events for free, unless otherwise stated.
- Affiliate members who paid their dues may attend all USAD events for free, unless otherwise stated.
- The right to attend and speak at general meetings, express their opinions, and contribute to decision-making processes.
- The right to run for officer positions and vote in organization elections.
- The right to propose amendments to the constitution and organizational policies.
- The right to insist on the enforcement of the Constitution.
- The right to exercise any other rights or privileges given to the membership by the Constitution.