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- Being the youngest of five,
I feel like my sisters and my mother
set forth a lot of expectations
to be a person of means,
and so coming here to ASU means a lot to me
because they gave them the tools
to be able to do that.
I feel like I'm carrying on tradition here
by getting my masters
and being able to be a person of means
through social work and public service.
- Something that gets brought up a lot in journalism
is giving voice to the voiceless,
and a couple of us kind of have beef with that phrase
because it's more about uplifting voices
that are already there.
People are pretty capable of speaking for themselves.
You just need to listen to them.
- One of the other reasons I chose ASU
is because their online electrical engineering program
is one of two in the country that is accredited.
Engineering touches everybody's lives every day,
and as such, I wanna make people's lives better
by making electricity more available
or communication through antennas
and radars more available to everyone.
- My research is a way to help myself,
to educate myself more on what I experienced
or how to heal,
and it's also just really important
because I see a lot of people
who have similar issues
or have had similar experiences to what I have.
Doing this research will hopefully
really help them in the future.
- I believe that education is beautiful
and it's a wonderful thing,
and educators directly impact
someone's relationship with education.
So it is a challenging career,
and I think that the community we built here
at ASU is what helps make it better.
- Two big mentors for me were Dr. Cheryl Schmidt
and Professor Anna Murphy.
They really pushed me
to stay involved at the university,
and it was Dr. Schmidt that really pushed me
to go to convention,
where I presented a resolution topic
to the National Student Nurse Association
where it was adopted for the work
that had been done here
at Arizona State University.
- ASU has done a great job
of letting the tribes know
that they are aware,
that they are existing on land
that traditionally belongs to the tribal nations,
especially in this region.
Here in Arizona, we are surrounded by tribes.
Having this Indian law program here,
it's been a great experience.
- It wasn't until I came to ASU
and I was really diving into
what I was interested in
and had the liberty to do it
that I started to get to know myself,
my interests, my experience here
in terms of my education
and how it's changed the relationship with my parents
and my own with education
has been very significant.
I don't think I would've figured that out
had I not decided to come to ASU.
- I know that I can 100% go back
to any of my previous professors
or faculty members still and ask them questions
and that they're 100% behind me
and support me for the rest of my career.
I've grown more in the past two and a half years
that I've been in this program
than I think I've grown total
in the rest of my life.
- Having that global mindset is really important
in the current time.
You as an individual can contribute to the society,
and I would be remiss
if I didn't get this opportunity
and work towards myself
and learn more about how I as an individual
could contribute to the society and to the world.
- ASU has been instrumental in my research,
in my development as a scientist.
The resources here, the collaboration,
the willingness for people to help
is unlike anything I've ever experienced.
- The disciplinary approach of ASU,
that's one of the reasons that I applied for ASU.
In other universities or countries,
if you are studying energy,
you have to be an engineer.
And here, you can be a social worker,
an economist, an engineer,
and you can study energy as well.
- One of the things I liked about
the ASU Masters of English program
is that you could finish really quickly
if you wanted to.
And I'm nearing the finish line
and I'm so, so happy for that.
- Art is always already technical,
it's always already technological,
and ASU is a place where you're able to
not only work with cutting-edge technologies
but also begin to understand
their implications socially and beyond the lab,
beyond the art studio.
- I'm hoping, as I look forward,
that I can be a voice, somebody who participates
in our democracy to be able to make a difference
or a change within our community.
- What's important as I graduate
and as I celebrate this accomplishment
is that I remember that getting the masters
was a lifelong process to get to here,
but now learning has become
a lifelong process for me.
I have to continue to learn at this same rate,
learn at this same level.
ASU has taught me so much.
Now I can apply that to the real world
and let the real world continue to teach me
and continue to educate me going forward.
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