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by Lango Deen ldeen@ccgmag.com
MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR THESE NATIONAL CONFERENCES Great Minds In STEM
Annual GMiS Conference October 5-8, 2022 Pasadena, California
American Indian Science and Engineering Society
AISES National Conference October 6-8, 2022 Palm Springs, California
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities Annual HACU Conference October 8-10, 2022 San Diego, California
Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans
SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference October 27-29, 2022 San Juan, Puerto Rico
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
SHPE National Convention November 2-6, 2022 Charlotte, North Carolina
Migrant farmworkers' daughters 2019 saw the largest graduating class in University of California, Merced history, and Anna Ocegueda was one of the stars. One of five children of undocumented migrant farmworkers from Mexico, Ocegueda was the first in her family to graduate from university, earning a bachelor's degree in psychology and a minor in Spanish. Later that day, her sister took a photograph of her with their parents,
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Top: Anna Oceguega and her parents Bottom: Jennifer Rocha and her parents
standing in orange groves. (https:// twitter.com/ucmerced/status/112870681 5347138560?lang=en). This year, Coachella native Jennifer Rocha, a University of California, San Diego graduate, took a similar photo in the farm fields where she worked with her parents. Since June 9, Rocha's story on UC San Diego's Facebook page has garnered 36,000 emojis and
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been shared 25,000 times. "Having to work two jobs, commute, and go to school at the same time was a struggle,” she wrote. “So many times, I wanted to give up, but my parents and their pieces of advice and support were the reason I kept going."(https:// www.facebook.com/UCSanDiego/ posts/10159431381224781)
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