News & Events
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UCDC Alumni – Tanner Rowland
Internship: The Office of Chairman Pete Aguilar Term of Participation: Fall 2022 What was your role during the internship? I served as a congressional intern in the Office of Chairman Aguilar in the U.S. House of Representatives. In this role, I attended in-person and virtual briefings which focused on an array of policy areas. I was introduced…
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UCDC Alumni – Sullivan Gaudreault
Internship: The Syrian Emergency Task Force Term of Participation: Fall 2022 Tell us about your internship – what kind of work did you do? What did you find rewarding? My internship was beyond amazing. I was my non-profit’s communications/marketing director/video/photo content creator. I wore a lot of hats because it’s on the smaller side, but that also…
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UCDC Alumni – Sammy Moore
Internship: The Human Rights Campaign Term of Participation: Fall 2022 What did you learn about your field of interest or the professional workspace? I was the policy and political affairs intern, so I tracked pro-equality legislation and worked with media response to LGBTQ+ legislation. It was amazing to see a bill that I had worked on since…
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Maya Amin
My name is Maya, and I am a politics and legal studies double major at UCSC. I recently participated in the Global Seminar: Writing 2 in Ireland Research and Travel Writing program during the summer of 2022. Being a first-generation student at an American university meant that growing up, I didn’t have much guidance about…
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Esteban Rosales
My name is Esteban Rosales, and I’m a Human Biology major. I studied abroad in Florence, Italy, through the UCEAP Made in Italy Florence Program in summer 2022 I’ve always wanted to study abroad in Europe, especially in Italy. As a first-generation, LatinX, low-income EOP student, it was difficult to grasp the idea of studying…
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Lucius Mitchell
Greetings reader, my name is Lucius. I’m a global economics major, and I studied this last summer in Berlin, through UCEAP’s Berlin Summer program at Free University Berlin (FUB). Founded in 1948, FUB is one of Germany’s most renowned universities and maintains a prominent reputation internationally. Preparing to study abroad is an involved and time-consuming process. As…
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Jaydah Branch
My name is Jaydah Branch, and I’m a Linguistics major who had the opportunity to study abroad in Seoul, South Korea for an academic year. As a low-income, African-American student, I never dreamed of being able to study in a continent as far away as Asia due to financial barriers. One day, I happened to…
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Fiona Lee
My name is Eunseo Fiona Lee (she/her/ella) and I am pursuing a double major in Politics and Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism. I studied away in UCEAP’s University of Bordeaux program for my sophomore year and went on to participate in UC Center Sacramento (UCCS) and UC Washington Center (UCDC) in the following years. My year in France was my first time…
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Shannon King
My name is Shannon King. I’m an Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism major with a minor in Linguistics and a teaching certificate in TESOL, and I studied in UCEAP’s University of Bordeaux program during Fall 2021. Studying away as a Queer Swedish-American led me to some of the best and most challenging times of my life. I experienced…
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Griselda Carolina Torres
My name is Griselda Carolina Torres. I am a Psychology major, and I studied abroad in UCEAP’s Yonsei University program in Seoul, South Korea, in fall 2021. I decided that I wanted to study abroad during my sophomore year in 2019. However, my plans were put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I debated whether to…
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Chailen August
I’m Chailen August. I’m a fourth-year Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) major Black Studies minor and I studied abroad in Ghana through UCEAP’s University of Ghana program. Studying abroad as a black person, low-income student in Ghana was sort of like a Black paradise. It was Black paradise because usually, I’m navigating white spaces where I’m not afforded…
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UCDC Alumni – Gilli Weinstein
Internship: Hope Foundation Reentry Network and Office of Congressman Scott Peters Term of Participation: Spring 2022 What was your role during the internship? Hope Foundation– worked on a workbook to be distributed in jails/prisons and a presentation of the workbook, contributed to a twice weekly group discussion of resources for formerly incarcerated people– most rewarding was meeting…