While studying abroad in our host countries, we all recognized subjects that were tabooed or culturally silenced, so Unconsciously Uncomfortable served to unveil some of these taboo topics.  Such topics exist everywhere, so at this event we aimed to establish a place for initiating dialogue for some of these topics that persist in the U.S. Learning about how to engage in these topics is something that we deem as essential for moving forward as a society, which was the basis for this event. The event had the goal of first transforming our campus culture to then hopefully evoke a greater change beyond Pitt. As our guests entered, they were greeted with a survey on which they were instructed to circle 3 of 10 topics that we previously thought of as being tabooed in the States. We asked them to select those that they were least comfortable discussing. To begin the establishment of this conversation, we explained what exactly a taboo is and how they exist in many societies. Then, the five of us thought back to our host countries to anecdotally describe some of our experiences with our taboo topics. Sex, religion, sexuality, race and politics were some of the topics that we shared stories about from our host countries of Madagascar, France, Tanzania, Japan, and South Africa, respectively. Following our global experiences, we moved the discussion back to the United States as that is where we could more directly advocate for change in conversation. Returning to the surveys, we selected the 3 most selected topics and broke out into small groups over pizza and cookies to discuss them, with a few pre-planned questions for each topic. For our guests, race, sexuality and mental health were the 3 least comfortable topics. At the end of our discussions, we came back together as a group to reflect and decompress.