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Reimagining Hookup Culture

Between reproductive rights advocacy and sexual health literacy, there’s endless commentary about how young people navigate relationships - whether they are long-term or fleeting connections. And, ironically, talking about hooking up is both extremely common and taboo. 

Reimagining Hookup Culture is a community of practice for students who want to make space for compelling conversations about their relational practices, including the narratives they’ve learned about intimacy and how that affects their everyday choices (and thinking). 

In this 6-session series, students will gather for discussions about hookup culture facilitated by Gen Z Relationship Health Expert Ebele Onyema. By the end of this community of practice, participants will be invited to build and share potential interventions that could help reimagine hookup culture in their lives or wider communities.

Who Can Join:

  • Any Barnard student with a deep academic, personal, or professional interest in the topic may apply.

The Commitment: Select Thursdays, from 6:30 - 8:30 PM

  • February 20 
  • February 27 
  • March 6 
  • March 13 
  • March 27
  • April 10

The Perks: 

  • Guidance from an expert with deep connections to the field, dinner at every meeting, plus a $100 stipend.

The application to join this Spring 2025 community of practice is now closed.

Great things happen through collaboration. Reimagining Hook Up Culture is a community of practice run in partnership with Being Barnard, a program of the LeFrak Center for Well-Being

Meet our Guest Expert!

Ebele Onyema

Ebele Onyema | Relationship Health Guest Expert

Ebele currently serves as the Social Impact Lead at Hinge, where she helps tackle the loneliness epidemic amongst Gen Z via the company's One More Hour initiative. Prior to joining Hinge, Ebele was the Director of Digital Content at The One Love Foundation, an organization that empowers young people to identify and address the signs of unhealthy relationships. 

Read Ebele's full bio here,

Over the course of 6 sessions, participants will receive:

  • Guidance from an expert with deep connections to the field
  • Community with their peers and fellow changemakers
  • Dinner at every meeting
  • A $100 stipend

Select Thursdays, from 6:30 - 8:30 PM

  • February 20 
  • February 27 
  • March 6 
  • March 13 
  • March 27
  • April 10

The application to join this Spring 2025 community of practice is now closed.

Questions? Reach out to Athena’s Director of Applied Learning, Chriss Sneed, at csneed@barnard.edu.