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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’s coach and mentor in Public Achievement, a youth-led civic engagement program within CU Engage.

CU �鶹ӰԺ 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’ 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 �鶹ӰԺ’s Public Achievement (PA) program students and staff and support from �鶹ӰԺ Valley School District administrators, several high school juniors' dream of creating an ethnic studies course at Lafayette’s 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 �鶹ӰԺ are only the beginning as her love for adventure literally takes her around the world,

Cynthia Corral Robles considers herself “lucky enough” 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

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

Alex Boeding has been a thoughtful and engaged student in all of his School of Education master’s classes while navigating a busy life as a full-time teacher during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alex consistently

Before enrolling at CU �鶹ӰԺ 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’s narrative that teaching science in

As a doctoral student Astrid Sambolín Morales went above and beyond to actively contribute to the formation of a better community in the CU �鶹ӰԺ School of Education and the Puerto Rican diaspora communities of Florida,

Originally from Vietnam, Nancy (Nga) Hoang pursued a Master’s 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