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Congratulations to all of our lovely MAA graduates!

Join us in congratulating Yari! She has been awarded the First Degree Scholarship.

MAA Alumni: AnaJenny’s involvement in MAA began as a high school student in the program. AnaJenny returned as a mentor once in college, later becoming coordinator. Since leaving her role at MAA she has interned with the Utah Juvenile Defender Attorneys and worked for Voices for Utah Children’s court observation team in the Juvenile Indigent Defense research project, she actively maintains her role working for the SJQ College of Law at the University of Utah. AnaJenny’s efforts and interests have always been community outreach and youth. When she is not in the court room she can be found enjoying some of her other passions which are coaching youth Wrestling and Photography or doing some Martial Arts of her own, AnaJenny has been training jiujitsu for the past two years. As she celebrates this milestone, now that she has graduated from her undergrad she still has full intentions of attending Law School to become a Juvenile Defender. AnaJenny will be taking a much needed and well deserved gap-year from all her hard work. This is time that she will use to get in a rest-vacation or two, prepare and study for the LSAT and tour Law Schools.

MAA Alumni: Itz's identity, language, and culture sprout from the lands of Oaxaca. Her and her family immigrated from Oaxaca when she was only 3 years old. Itz is a Zapotec community member, the people of the clouds. Throughout her journey, she emphasizes the importance of honoring her community, elders, and ancestors. Itz has been a former student and has been a coordinator for the program for the past 4 years. She also develops curriculum and coordinates our Legislative internship. She is engaged in the Glendale Voices project with the University of Utah supporting the culturally and linguistically diverse Glendale community to advocate for their own high school. Here, she gained valuable coding and qualitative analysis experience, contributing to the research later presented to the SLC School Board of Education. Much of the work she does is also connected to the arts, she loves expressing herself through writing, painting, and pottery. This fall, Itzel will be pursuing a master's degree at TC: Columbia University.

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