This initiative was enacted in response to student requests for improved faculty and student relationships and seeks to promote engagement, communication, and trust between our faculty and graduate students. These informal gatherings also provide a space and mechanism to address student concerns. More generally, enhanced engagement breaks through the hierarchical nature of faculty-student interactions, which serves our community enrichment mission by allowing us to better understand the unique experiences and challenges that our students are facing, and how we might mitigate those issues programmatically to create a more supportive and effective training environment.