I became the first in my family to graduate from college —with four kids — thanks to help from programs included in the Trump administration’s $10.6 billion in proposed cuts to federal education initiatives. Without those programs I would never have graduated from UC Berkeley and UCLA respectively. Like many low-income, first-generation students, my the […]
Alex Serna
Alex Serna is a program director for Breakthrough San Juan Capistrano, a nonprofit with the mission to support highly motivated, but underserved students by providing tuition-free, year-round academic support and college counseling for 10 years.