Only by chance did Amanda Quintero realize that attending a four-year university was an option for her. Her parents, both immigrants from Mexico, were unfamiliar with higher education and expected her to stay close to home in West Sacramento. Quintero felt like her high school advisers were steering…
California State University, Northridge Chicana/o studies professor Ana Sánchez-Muñoz will be traveling to the University of the Republic in Uruguay this fall, as a Fulbright Scholar examining dialect and language contact in the country. Her project has a two-fold purpose — to examine immigrant identity formation through the…
Every step of the way, Sarah Tubert ’17 (Liberal Studies) is finding new ways to show that anything can be done as long as you believe in yourself. At the age of 3, although she was born with full hearing, Tubert was misdiagnosed with hearing issues. This led…
To the general public, juvenile crime is displaced and concentrated in certain neighborhoods but, in reality, it is because poverty is displaced, according to California State University, Northridge criminology and justice studies professor Brianne Posey. High poverty, overcrowding in the home, mental health disruptions and community trauma are…