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Dignidad, Poder, Resistencia // Dignity, Power, Resistance, Michael Munoz, Alanis Gonzalez, Tallie Spencer, Isabelle Marin, Lesly Juarez, Christopher Reynoso, Antonia Garcia, Abigail Goad, Athena Martinez, Ruth Gomez, Angel Vazquez, Jazmin Quezada, Jasmine Segovia, Jordyn Wedell, Yulisa Gonzalez, Laura Mena Hernandez, Keiri Fernandez

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

First To Go Abroad" is a partnership between the Loyola Marymount University First To Go Program, LMU Study Abroad, and the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), which seeks to increase study abroad opportunities for first-generation college students. In May 2017, fifteen first-gen students and two first-gen faculty mentors traveled together to Santiago, Dominican Republic, where they spent ten days exploring the country and learning about the local cultures, customs, and histories of the people who call the DR home.

Travel is a privilege not all students have the same access to; for some students, this trip was the first …

Immigration And Justice: Moving Towards Hope Series, 2014, Jonathan Ishii

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

The art photographed here was presented to LMU's College of Communication and Fine Arts as part of the ARTSmart Program and also displayed in the Thomas P. Kelly Student Art Gallery for the 2014 Arte Sin Fronteras exhibition sponsored by the LMU Immigration Justice Coalition. This piece takes a global social justice perspective on the impact of immigration, undocumented students, and the field of higher education.