UCLA CENTER FOR COMMUN!TY COLLEGE PARTNERSHIPS

CCCP SCHOLARS PROGRAM 2021-2022

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Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Power to the

DIVERSE ASIAN AMER!CAN

Transfer Student Exper!ence Web!nar

Power to the DIVERSE ASIAN AMERICAN Transfer Student Experience Webinar

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KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Meet our keynote speaker!

Cherry Lai

Cherry Lai would probably tell you first that she’s currently a Sociology instructor and faculty at College of the Dessert having earned her Master’s degree in Sociology at CSUN after completing her BA at UCLA. Perhaps she would also tell you about her interest in race, family, education theory and research methods. She gets to the point of the story, bluntly and accurately. However, her story has been anything but to the point and it is exactly because it took many turns that the multiple intersecting lives that she has lived defy a story with just one point. A scholar. An immigrant. A mother. A traveler. A foodie. A friend. An innovator. And sometimes, a pain in the….

Once, if you are to believe her, a professional badminton player in Hong Kong, Cherry migrated with her mother to the US, carrying with her the memories of her grandmother and becoming a mother herself early in life, her college career came only after a culinary degree and owning an ice cream store. As she became the single parent for her two children, Cherry eventually found her way to East Los Angeles College, a CCCP scholar and after transferring, a formidable peer advisor. Unlike many other student parents, Cherry took advantage of the student experience at UCLA, including being chosen as one of four students for an exchange program that focuses on social justice in Amsterdam and then travelling through Europe on her own.

After graduating from UCLA, she joined the full-time staff at CCCP, where she left her mark in so many ways but more to the point, as she would prefer: she created the first parenting student program that intentionally celebrates both identities: parent and student. Her work around creating and nurturing a parenting affirming culture at places like UCLA is now being carried on by the many parenting students now at many different institutions throughout the US. Cherry also challenged the notions of a monolithic Asian community and CCCP is indebted to her for pushing us beyond the model minority myth on how to be intentional about including the diverse voices, experiences, challenges and triumphs that provide the complex multilayered transfer narratives.

Definitely no a simple story.

Mental Health in the Asian American Communities during the pandemic and Anti-Asian racism.

Max Pereyra

Max (he/him/his) is a PhD student in Education (Higher Education and Organizational Change) here at UCLA. He earned his Master of Education in Student Affairs at UCLA, as well as a B.S. in Bioengineering at the University of California, Riverside. His research interests center on two distinct (though related) foci: race and racism on college campuses, as well as sexual violence on college campuses, particularly as it relates to queer Students of Color. As the Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) at CARE, he will be assisting in the implementation of sexual violence prevention programming, as well as conducting research, evaluation, and assessment of prevention education for the CARE Program. His research is primarily informed by Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, and Quantitative Critical Theory (QuantCrit). Prior to his work with CARE, he worked as an Assistant Resident Director at UCLA Residential Life, and also has experience in ethnic, gender, and sexuality programming, as well as violence prevention education. When he’s not doing research and attempting to dismantle oppressive systems, he’s usually cuddling his cat (Luka).

FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL

Lena Wang

Graduate Student,

UCLA School of Education

iyue (Lena) Wang is a doctoral student in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Her research examines the role of immigration status and race in shaping undocumented experiences in higher education. Specifically, she is interested in the social construction of illegality, and how it intersects with other systems of oppression to marginalized communities of color. Prior to graduate school, Lena earned her bachelor’s in Linguistics and Psychology with a Labor Studies minor at UCLA. As a scholar-activist, Lena is committed to improve the conditions of underrepresented communities by serving as a research assistant, an immigration advocate, a community college mentor, and after-school instructor.

2019 Labor Studies Graduate Q&A with Siyue (Lena) Wang— “It took me nine years but I’m finally graduating!”

https://irle.ucla.edu/2019/06/20/uncovering-the-herstory-of-irle-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-2-2/

https://www.uclabearlab.org/our-team

https://immigrantsrising.org/wp-content/uploads/Immigrants-Rising_Increasing-Inclusivity-for-UndocuAPI-Students-on-Your-Campus.pdf

LUCY M.S.P. BURNS

Associate Professor,

UCLA Asian American Studies