Carolina Cardoza
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Bio:
Carolina Cardoza is a senior Critical Theory and Social Justice Major. She is a first generation college student. Born and raised in Highland Park where her parents came to from El Salvador in the mid 1980s. When transferring to Occidental College in 2014 from Pasadena City College, Carolina has seen the active role that Occidental College has on gentrification in Highland Park and is currently Co-President of Occidental Students United Against Gentrification. OSUAG partners with the Northeast Los Angeles Alliance to bring awareness to the Oxy campus of their role on gentrification and the impacts it has on the community. Her other interests besides working with her community around gentrification are educational access, incarceration, immigration, and the intersectionality of these and other issues that show how so many systems of oppression are at work to predominantly affect people of color from low socio-economic communities. Carolina will be leaving to Guatemala in January 2017 to complete a year as a Fulbright Fellowship recipient.