"The BTS collective and allies became a major part of my success at UC Davis. I was viewed not just as another student, another number, or someone passing by, but as a human being. This was our intention and purpose. Palabra."

Professor Carlos Jackson shares his story of being system impacted during his address at the Chicanx Latinx Graduation

George Villa is a Community and Regional Development major working to implement positive change in his home town of Salinas, CA. He describes the challenges he faced on campus and the solutions he found.

Attending law school at UC Davis was both empowering and eye-opening for Briana Zweifler. "The things that were hard were the way people talked about people who were incarcerated or justice-involved, and how many people believed that the system works well just as it is."

As a first-generation college student who was also system-impacted, I thought I had to choose between sharing my circumstances and being stigmatized in order to get support, or sharing nothing and pushing through on my own. I often chose the latter, and felt alone.