UCLA CENTER FOR COMMUN!TY COLLEGE PARTNERSHIPS

CCCP SCHOLARS PROGRAM 2021-2022

Can you feel the Power? The Power is with!n you!

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Power to the

SOUTHEAST ASIAN

Transfer Student Exper!ence

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SOUTHEAST ASIAN ZOOM RESERVATION

Power to the SOUTHEAST ASIAN Transfer Student Experience Webinar

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AGENDA: Tuesday, August 17, 2021

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Workshop 1: “Historical Context”

Dr. Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi

Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi is an assistant professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA. Her book, Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine, is forthcoming with University of California Press in 2022

Workshop 2: Model Minority Myth and Student Advocacy

Dr. Tracy Buenavista Lachica

Tracy Lachica Buenavista is Professor of Asian American Studies and a core faculty member in the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership. She also serves as the co-principal investigator for the CSUN DREAM Center, Asian American Studies Pathways Project, and Ethnic Studies Education Pathways Project; and is a member of the Project Rebound Community Advisory Committee. Professor Buenavista teaches courses on race and racism, immigration, and research methods, and in her research uses critical race theory to examine how education, immigration and carcerality shape the contemporary experiences of Filipino/a/x, Asian American, and other People of Color in the U.S.

Southeast Asian Campus Learning Education and Retention

Annie Pham, SEA CLEAR

Southeast Asian Campus Learning Education and Retention (SEA CLEAR) challenges students to find relevancy in their education in order to help them develop and become empowered leaders. It is SEA CLEAR’s vision that these students later apply their newfound knowledge to the outside world to proactively contribute to their Southeast Asian community.

The project helps to increase graduation and retention rates by developing students holistically through four components: counseling, mentorship, an internship program, and a wellness component.

SEA CLEAR project at UCLA was established in 1998 by the Vietnamese Student Union (VSU) at UCLA to represent Southeast Asian students and to educate them about Southeast Asian community issues.

Panel: Discussing the Transfer Experience

Kia Tan

Associate Director UC Merced 

MODERATOR

Aaron Tann

Citrus College/UCLA

Communication Major

PANELIST

Tiffany Do

De Anza CC/UCLA Alumna, Sociology Major

PANELIST

Brandon Le

LA Pierce/UCLA Psychology Major

PANELIST

Mental Health and Wellness

Tiffany Tran, MA/MSW

Tiffany Tran (she/her) grew up in Monterey Park (occupied Tongva land) as a first-generation student and as the daughter of a Chinese-Vietnamese refugee. As an undergraduate, she double majored in Gender Studies and Asian American Studies at UCLA. Tiffany continued her time at UCLA to complete a MA in Asian American Studies and a MSW (Master in Social Work). While in graduate school her research focused on the utilization of social services within the Chinese-Vietnamese refugee community. She currently works as a therapist at a forensic treatment program in Los Angeles. Tiffany's therapy practice experience includes providing a trauma-informed framework to folks who are formerly incarcerated, immigrants/refugees, low-income, and/or bi-lingual. Tiffany is also an active member of API-RISE, a grassroots organization that supports API identifying folks who have been impacted by incarceration. Tiffany spends her free time with her dog(ter), Bagel.