Authoring Our Own First-Gen Graduation Stories
It's graduation season, so I want to repost this piece that I wrote very early in the life
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Learning about Inclusion Off On Our Own
I follow FirstGen Forward both to learn how campuses are serving first-gen students and to track what this influential national
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Auctioning Off Equity
The first time I heard about PTA auctions was when one of our teacher education students was hired at a
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Becoming [a version of] Middle Class
I have been in so many conversations with other first-gen academics about what it means to be critically upwardly mobile.
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Who Isn't Worthy of Empathy: An Abbot Elementary Case Study
I love the TV show Abbott Elementary. I love how deeply the show nudges its audience toward empathy as characters&
Trailblazers
Someday soon, I'm going to write an entire post on the ways in which campuses describe first-generation students
Who Tells Our Stories?
In this profile of a remarkable first-generation student graduating from UCLA this year, she describes her mother taking her to