Chican@s Unidos 2018 Summer Internship: Research and Organizing
CU will be offering multiple internships during the Summer of 2018. We are a grassroots organization that believes in the value of research to help organize around issues that impact out communities. You do not need to be a students to apply, but you do need to be 18 years or older.
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Criteria for applying:
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2017 Summer Interns
Topic: Gentrification in SanTana
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Kevin Rivera
Fara Rodriguez Crystal Valenzuela Diana Luz Morales Karla Vargas Julie Vue The fight for Santa Ana is stronger today than ever. The research that I have been doing for the past month not only opened my eyes, but made more evident that our community is not being included in the developments of the future. It was emphasized more and more after countless City Council meetings and “workshops, ” trying to represent the community of Santa Ana, CA, it’s clear and evident that our interest as the resident of Santa Ana are not at heart. We can not remain docile as the battle to keep our lands dissipates, we need to act now. " |
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" To begin with, this internship exceeded my expectations and was one of my most significant experiences. Before attending the first meeting that took place on July 9th, my main interest was to conduct research on gang injunctions in Santa Ana. I was aware about the legal issues surrounding gang injunctions, including the unconstitutionality of these civil injunctions. However, I learned that this issue was even more complex than what I anticipated after listening to my advisors’ presentations about gang injunctions and gentrification....Two memorable experiences that I gained from this summer internship was when my group visited the Townsend area in Santa Ana and when I attended the City of Santa Ana’s Planning Commission Meeting. These fieldwork-like meetings further placed my research into context and made it clear that community organizing is significant. "
2016 Summer Intern: Gentrification and Gang Injunction |
2016 Summer Interns
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" Really starting out, I had zero knowledge about charter schools. I had snippets of what friends and family have told me about them and charter schools seemed to be really great, probably even better than public schools. After this internship, I now know this not the whole story. I also realize that those who, like myself, are not knowledgeable about charter schools but hear “great’ things about them here and there, also think they are wonderful. Now, I am more knowledgeable and I surprise people when I talk about what really goes on in some of the charter schools....It helped me so much to learn that the type of research we were conducting was somewhat outside the type of research I see a lot in academia which usually is finding peer reviewed scholarly articles. The type of research we conducted, was more face paced in my eyes because things were happening as we were research, especially so in Santa Ana and the charter schools establishing themselves there. "
2016 Summer Intern: Charter Schools |
2015 Scholarship Recipients |
2014 Scholarship Recipients |
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High School: Erick Basquez
Home City: Santa Ana Second Chance: Veronica De Leon Home City: Orange Graduate/Credential: Yuri Morales Lara Home City: Santa Ana Graduate/Credential:Carolina Vilchis Home City: Santa Ana University: Nayeli Rodriguez Hernandez Home City: Anaheim Community College: Jose David Solano Jimenez Home City: Anaheim, Fullerton, Orange, Buena Park |
2013 Scholarship Recipients |
2012 Scholarship Recipient |
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Melissa Serna, High School Scholarship HS Attended: Anaheim HS Fall 2013 School: Cypress College, Nursing, first in family to attend college Hairo Cortes, Community College Scholarship; HS Attended: Santa Ana HS Fall 2013 School: SAC, part of OCDT and California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance Alexis Teodoro Nava, University Scholarship; HS Attended: Century HS Fall 2013 School: CSULB, Chicano Studies and Economics, first to attend college David Villanueva, Second Chance Scholarship. HS Attended: Harbor Learning Center Fall 2013 School: OCC, Welding Technology Certificate, first in family to attend college |
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Gema Suarez, Community College Scholarship
Orange Glen High graduate. Continuing her study in geography at Santiago Canyon College; Anna Diaz, MEChA Scholarship Savanna High graduate studying Chicano studies, sociology and Spanish at Cal State Fullerton Virginia Flor Ocampo, University Scholarship CSUF student studying Chicano studies and human services Marilynn Montano, High School Scholarship Godinez Fundamental High Studying journalism and Chicano studies at Santa Ana College |
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Stephanie Arroyo
Claudia Perez
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2011 Scholarship Recipients
2011 OC Register Coverage by Theresa Cisneros Stephanie Arroyo: Arroyo is a student at Fullerton College, who plans to attend U.C. Berkley in the fall and major in history, with a minor in ethnic studies. She’ll then seek to pursue a master’s degree in education and return to Fullerton College to teach history or ethnic studies Hector Valdez: Valdez is a senior at Olive Crest Academy, who will be attending Santa Ana Collegein the fall. He is an engineer major and strives to give back to the community. Valdez is conscientious of the sacrifices his mother made so that he can pursue his childhood dream of becoming an engineer, Claudia Perez: Perez is a senior at Los Amigos High School, who will attend Santa Ana College in the fall as a Spanish language major. Perez is the president of her school’s Career Explorer Club. She also participates in the Orange County Dream Team, and is active in The Grain Project’s Community Garden at Jerome Park in Santa Ana. |
