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There is a “massive mismatch of where private philanthropic dollars go and where students in California go to school, particularly if we think about low-income, first-generation and students of color,” said Kelly King, executive director of the Foundation for the Los Angeles Community Colleges.

Ola recalled more than 1,400 first-generation scooters in 2022 to investigate the fires, but the report was not publicly released.

Growing up minutes away from Dominguez Hills in Lakewood, the first-generation college student’s main goal was to use basketball to earn an education.

As a first-generation Latina myself, I felt seen in the cultural gap exemplified by Los Dinos, who grew increasingly frustrated with the music their dad taught them to perform.

Like the “Buena Vista” musicians, Ramirez also followed his dream thousands of miles from home, his artistic pursuits carrying the first-generation son of Cuban immigrants from his Hialeah hometown to New York, where he studied playwriting at NYU and Juilliard.