SASAKI RECEIVES THI PUBLIC FELLOWSHIP

Kelsey Sasaki has received a THI Public Fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year to work with local nonprofit Senderos, our department’s partner in the Nido de Lenguas initiative. This select award provides financial support for UCSC graduate students in the humanities to do work that bridges the academic and public.

Kelsey writes:

I’ve received a year-long THI Public Fellowship, and will be working with Senderos, a local nonprofit that works to put Latinx students on college-bound pathways and promotes the sharing and celebration of Mexico’s cultural heritage through free classes in traditional Mexican dance and music. As a Public Fellow, my work with Senderos will range from community surveying to event planning to website design. I will also be expanding Nido de Lenguas’s online materials archive, creating new language-learning materials, and continuing to build the partnership between Nido de Lenguas and Senderos.

Congratulations, Kelsey!