8.29.20 The Student Parent Transfer Experience Webinar

AGENDA

MORNING 10:30-12 Noon

Power to the Student Parents

10:00 AM Open Session
10:30 AM Welcome & Introduction
10:50 Activity
10:55 Student Parent Affirming Culture
11:20 Community Cultural Wealth (Keynote Speaker)
11:50 Closing

BREAK 12 Noon-2:00

AFTERNOON: 2-3:30

Optional Activities

12-1:15 PM: Student & Alumni Mixer

Power to the Student Parents

2:00 PM Welcome
2:05 PM Self-Care Presentation
2:20 PM Panel Introductions
3:05 PM Q & A
3:20 PM Closing

PRESENTERS

CHERRY LAI

LA PIERCE COLLEGE PROGRAM COORDINATORPROUD PARENTING SCHOLAR

Cherry Lai is a program coordinator at the Center for Community College Partnerships (CCCP) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In her work, Cherry encourages and informs first-generation, low-income, and historically underrepresented community college students in the transfer process to 4-year universities. CCCP applies the social justice pillar of critical race theory in its work and incorporates the two-generational approach to its programming to include not only the participants but their families. Cherry developed and implemented one of the first pre-transfer programs for community college student parents, and the success of Parenting Student Summer Intensive Transfer Experience is reflected in her Master’s thesis, titled, “Developing a Student-Parent Affirming Culture: A program evaluation on a pre-transfer initiative.” Cherry also works closely with college partners and community organizations to further the efforts in providing more holistic support to underserved students at both the 2-year and 4-year universities.

Tunette Powell

Dr. Tunette Powell is an activist mama, researcher, storyteller and educator who has been on the frontlines fighting for her village, locally and nationally, to reimagine and rebuild the village in schools. As an established author and researcher, Dr. Powell has published several books and papers on issues of parent and family engagement, kinship, race, racism and school-induced collective trauma. She was a 2013 TEDx speaker and has appeared on Oprah’s Lifeclass, NPR, CNN and MSNBC. Dr. Powell earned her PhD in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2020. She is currently the interim director of the UCLA Parent Empowerment Project, a project focused on co-constructing culturally relevant and responsive family engagement and parent leadership in schools.

Tiffany Pitts

Tiffany describes herself as an Activist Mama, Student, Friend, and Spiritual Support. Pitts is currently studying African American Studies and Sociology as an undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with intentions of pursuing a PhD in Sociology. Her research interests include Black culture and life in Los Angeles and international and internal migration. Tiffany shares with her children and community members mindfulness techniques by facilitating guided meditations for cultivating peace and love in daily life.

Gustavo Tepetla

Gustavo Tepetla is a designer from LA. He studied Design Media Arts with a minor in Visual and Performing Arts Education at UCLA. His focus as a designer is to create influential and impactful works through technological mediums to manifest the metaphysical into physical. Gustavo is an aspiring professor, with a goal of teaching at UCLA.

Star K Edwards

Star K Edwards graduated from UCLA with a BA in Anthropology & Film/TV/Media studies with a minor in Afro-American Studies. She has worked in a dual Master’s prep program under independent research with UCLA & UCB graduate school of journalism. She is now working on her Masters in Anthropology. Star has been a community leader for UCLA’s University Village family housing, implementing programming & resources for its residents. She wears many hats & has an extensive resume.

Brenda Coronel

Brenda Coronel graduated Summa Cum Laude and College Honors in 2020 with a BA in Sociology at UCLA. During her time at UCLA, she was granted the Undergraduate Research Fellows Program scholarship to conduct independent research on student-parents in higher education. As a single parent, Brenda is committed to breaking the stigma of single parents raising low-income families. She has dedicated her personal and professional life to serving others and will continue as she pursues a Master's of Social Welfare at UCLA Luskin, where she contributes diverse skill sets and perspectives as a mother of color who is deeply committed to improving the lives of historically underserved communities.

Miriam Santana

Miriam Santana is a parenting student, commuter, and involved in multiple research projects at UCLA. Miriam was a McNair Scholar at UCLA. She enjoys hiking, reading, and her favorite color is purple.

Liz Preovolos

Liz Preovolos (she/her) is a non-traditional third-year transfer and Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholar at UC Berkeley, majoring in Sociology and Gender Studies. She transferred from Santa Monica College, where she co-founded the Parenting Students Network. Liz is a mother of two and a proud alumni of Parenting SITE 2019.

Zuleika Bravo

Zuleika Bravo (she/her) is a first-generation, non-traditional, parenting student who is majoring in political science and Latin American Studies at UCLA. She has worked with the Students wtih Dependents program since 2018 and has advocated for parenting students on campus and UC wide. She continues to advocate for student parents in her new role as Transfer Student Rep.

Nancy Ocana

Nancy Ocana is a non-traditional parenting student from Mid-City Los Angeles. She transferred from East Los Angeles College to UCLA in 2018. She attended about five different community colleges all over Los Angeles throughout the last 20 years. It wasn't until her mid-thirties that she first took a culturally relevant class. It changed her educational trajectory. Through one of these courses she learned about the CCCP Parenting Site in 2017. She will be applying to a Master's program in the Fall. Through CCCP she gets to inspire other parenting students by showing them how she navigated higher education with the support of her CCCP community.

Tommy Fuentes

Father of two boys, major: aerospace engineer at Cal Poly Pomona, Pierce College alumni, 2020

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