HJHP Congratulates Board member Dr. Robert S. Nelsen and The University of Texas- Pan American on a successful HESTEC.

The Hispanic Engineering, Science and Technology (HESTEC) conference promotes the importance of science literacy to thousands of students, parents and teachers. Now in its ninth year, HESTEC has become a national model for how to improve student attitudes about careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Watch highlights from this year’s event here: http://hestec.utpa.edu/

My life as a DREAMer

who ACTed beyond the barriers:

From growing up "undocumented" in Arizona
to a Masters degree from Harvard

By Silvia P. Rodríguez Vega 

My life as a Dream Act student has never been easy. Most of my peers in this situation face endless stress, discrimination, and walk on paths with dead ends.

My story begins like the thousands of students who are in my shoes. My parents brought me into the United States when I was too young to remember. In my case, I was two years old, and came to the U.S with a tourist visa that expired years later.  My mother and father were dreaming of a future with education and opportunity for me.

They would never foresee the events that would happen as I grew into an adult, and the suffering our family would endure because of our legal status.  

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HJHP at NCLR's Annual Conference

HJHP led a workshop called "Discussing Policy from a Student Perspective" on Saturday, July 23rd at NCLR's 2011 Líderes Summit. Participants heard the personal stories of young Latino leaders at Harvard and about the benefits of approaching politics from a scholarly perspective. 

Read more about NCLR's Annual Conference. 

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