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Denise is a first-generation transfer student parent from Santa Rosa Junior College. Before coming to Cal, she was actively involved with the Puente program at her community college and is deeply passionate about ensuring that historically marginalized students have the resources and tools they need to succeed in higher education. Her current research focuses on the challenges that student parents face in higher education and aims to develop policies to support the increasing number of student parents on college campuses.

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My name is Alma Rodriguez (she/her/ella), I am a proud student-parent and DACA recipient. I graduated from UC Berkeley this past summer with a B.A. In Sociology. Through the honors thesis program, I was able to develop my own research project that focused on how undocumented students navigated the higher education system emerging as "hidden activists". I am a first-year PhD student at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) at Stanford University, in the Sociology of Education Program. My research will focus on studying undocumented Latina mothers in higher education.

Julio is a third-year transfer student majoring in sociology and a prospective PhD student. Before moving to Berkeley, he spent three years at San Diego City College pursuing associate degrees in Sociology, Chicana/o Studies, and Social & Behavioral Sciences. His theses focused on the effects of hyperconsumerism in Starbucks stores upon partners during nationwide unionization, medical assimilation among low-income patients with adult-onset diseases, and the rehabilitation and policing of masculinity present in collegiate fraternities. His current research looks at the interpretations of Latinidad and how it is weaponized among Latinx student associations with other Latinés on campus, offering an insight into perceptions of panethnicity in the future.

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