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20-year-old Enihs Medrano never envisioned herself serving in local government until a program for young people opened her eyes to the power of civic engagement. As a high schooler in Lafayette, Medrano connected with JD Mangat, a fellow Lafayette resident who became Medrano鈥檚 coach and mentor in Public Achievement, a youth-led civic engagement program within CU Engage.

CU 麻豆影院 researchers have been working with state partners to understand and address the financial strain new teachers face when trying to enter the educator workforce and elevate teacher candidates鈥� voices. Their work paid off when Gov. Jared Polis signed first-of-its-kind legislation for Colorado that will support new teachers and create student-educator stipends.

With help from CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 Public Achievement (PA) program students and staff and support from 麻豆影院 Valley School District administrators, several high school juniors' dream of creating an ethnic studies course at Lafayette鈥檚 Centaurus High School is becoming a reality. PA leaders developed curriculum for the first-of-its-kind social studies elective class exploring culture, identity, race and ethnicity, and they hope it will be offered districtwide in 2023.

Amalia Kamlet has always had a heart for adventure and science. Her adventures in teaching and in the outdoors as a student at CU 麻豆影院 are only the beginning as her love for adventure literally takes her around the world, starting with an opportunity as a STEM science teacher in...

Cynthia Corral Robles considers herself 鈥渓ucky enough鈥� to have stumbled across the Leadership and Community Engagement major in the School of Education. She first discovered the INVST Community Studies program and its summer justice tour of Colorado, which unleashed her passion for community leadership. She traveled the state of Colorado...

Quinton Andre Freeman comes from a family of educators. His wife, Adrienne, is a middle school principal. His parents, now a retired county agent and a retired special education teacher, met while student teaching, and his mother urged him to get a teaching certificate as a fallback plan after college...

Alex Boeding has been a thoughtful and engaged student in all of his School of Education master鈥檚 classes while navigating a busy life as a full-time teacher during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alex consistently demonstrates a strong commitment to the School of Education鈥檚 vision for justice and democracy and works to...

Before enrolling at CU 麻豆影院 as a doctoral student, Caitlin Fine was a science teacher in a dual-language elementary school in Virginia, where she was often frustrated by her district鈥檚 narrative that teaching science in Spanish was a 鈥渘ice bonus鈥� and teachers need to prepare students for English-language multiple-choice state...

As a doctoral student Astrid Sambol铆n Morales went above and beyond to actively contribute to the formation of a better community in the CU 麻豆影院 School of Education and the Puerto Rican diaspora communities of Florida, Denver, and Pennsylvania with whom she partnered. Make sure the work you do is...

Originally from Vietnam, Nancy (Nga) Hoang pursued a Master鈥檚 of Education degree in order to bring about change to the education system in her country. Hoang graduated from FTP University in Vietnam with a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering. In Vietnam, she was the first person to create computer...