"As a first-generation, low-income, DACA-mented graduate, I am a product of an educational system that aims to both exceptionalize and, more often, disenfranchise students with similar backgrounds. Being a VISTA allows me to combat education inequity by actively working with underrepresented students and ensuring that new and existing spaces we help build are where they can thrive, aspire towards dreams, and speak their minds."
— Eisen Ipac, Cal Poly Pomona