Grad School Femtoring: Inclusive Grad School Stories, Personal Development, and Productivity Tips for First-Gen BIPOCs

I’m thrilled to have Christina V. Rodriguez from @latinaswithmasters as our guest speaker this week. She shares her insights all about housing and funding in master’s programs. Christina is a multicultural and equity-minded marketer and educator with a commitment in creating equitable opportunities for Women of Color in business, housing and academia.

In this episode we discuss: Her first-gen educational experience taking gap years and reapplying to grad school. Housing 101 and what to consider when searching for housing. The hidden costs of relocating for grad school. Her process of creating Latinas with Masters for Latina empowerment, where it’s at, and where it’s going.

Here are some other links Christina mentioned on the show: Latinas with Masters and Consumer Affairs

You can be in touch with Christina by following her on all social media platforms with the handle @latinaswithmasters.

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Our guest speaker this week is Adriana Jaramillo who shares her insights on taking a gap year, facing rejection, and reapplying to grad programs. Adriana is a first-gen Chicana who earned her BA in Psych with minors in Chicanx Studies and Education after transferring to UCLA from Santa Monica College. She’s currently reapplying to master’s programs in educational policy with an emphasis in higher ed.

In this episode we discuss: Her transfer and gap year experiences. The value in taking time to reflect on applying to grad school. The benefits of reaching out to professors from different institutions for research opportunities. Why Adriana has chosen to apply only to master’s programs. And advice for students who are also re-applying to grad programs. 

You can be in touch with Adriana on Twitter and Instagram with the following handles: @Adriana_J_C for Twitter and @Ay.its.jay for Instagram.

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Check out the latest episode of the Grad School Femtoring Podcast which covers the topic of financial literacy for first-generation college students. This episode features Ana and Jeremy who are a first-gen married couple on the path to financial independence and who are committed to spreading their knowledge of financial education among BIPOC and mixed immigration status communities. 

In this episode you’ll learn all about: their experiences migrating from Mexico to California as children, their college and grad school journeys in areas of counseling, engineering, strategies for paying for your undergraduate education, quick and efficient ways to get started investing, how our parents pass on their knowledge and views about money to us, and how to take advantage of financial education resources available.

To connect with them, you can follow them on Instagram @brewingdinero 

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I’m thrilled to release an episode all about personal brand design and the business of personal development with a very special guest, Dr. Lauren Mason Carris. She’s my first guest of 2022 and also happens to be a former femtor/mentor of mine. Dr. Lauren Mason Carris is a first-gen Jew-tina who is also the VP of Learning Design at Penny AI, a global SaaS tech company. In this episode you’ll learn all about: her experience as a first-generation scholar and Applied Linguist at UCLA, the relationship between critical identity studies and personal brand design, what personal brand design is and how it's relevant for current and aspiring graduate students, how she made the leap from academia to industry, how continuous reflection of her values, interests, and skills helps her along her journey, how personal brand is an ongoing process and what questions you can reflect on to help craft your own.

To connect with Dr. Lauren, you can find her on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lmcarris

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This week’s episode is all about why and how to invest in yourself, in your growth, in your goals. Specifically, this episode covers: investing in yourself via coaching, the difference between coaching and femtoring, my experience working with coaches as a grad student, my coaching and types of support I offer, 3 free ways to invest in yourself this year, and I also add in a few personal updates too. 

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Check out my latest episode, where I share my year end reflection in what is my first recording while living abroad. The big focus of this episode is on the importance of dreaming, resting, being proud, and being grateful. Here are a few questions to ask yourself as you reflect on your year: Where were you a year ago? Where are you now? What are you most proud of this year? What are you most grateful for this year? What are your current goals? What’s the biggest dream you could ever have?

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Check out our latest episode, with our special guest, Dr. Ces’Ari Garcia-Del-Muro from the Latinx Education Coach, who shares all about how to prepare for academic writing during the holidays. In this episode, she shares valuable insights, including: what it was like growing up multigenerational with a gang-affiliated family in Baldwin Park, CA, recognizing the changing family dynamics many first-gen students face after you’ve gone to college, the importance of literacy rates in the US and teaching English, advice for those that have writing to do over the holidays, the services that Latinx Ed Coach provides, such as coaching, editing, workshops, and more!

To connect with Dr. Garcia-Del Muro, you can follow her via @latinxeducation_coach or go to latinxedcoach.com

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In our latest episode, our special guest, Brandon Quintana—a biology master’s student at CSUF— shares how he went from losing 10K of funding to gaining 75K! In this episode, he shares valuable insights, including: what happens when you lose your grad funding because it’s contingent on one grade, the issues of merit scholarships that don’t account for disadvantages and inequities in academia, how to find scholarships for masters programs, pointers for winning competitive scholarships and fellowships, and much more!

To connect with Brandon, you can follow him on Twitter. His handle is @brandoyster_

Here is the handle to the Instagram scholarship account he mentions in the episode: @accessscholarships.

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This episode features our special guest, Jeannette Marroquin, a 25 year old DACA scholar, professor, and business owner who shares all about what it means to follow your gut unapologetically.  Tune in to hear more about: her experience moving to a new country as a young child, navigating school and work as a DACA recipient, how following her gut has led her to seamlessly switch career paths, and what it’s like being a young business owner.  

Follow the Starting Thoughts Podcast on Instagram @startingthoughtspodcast to connect more with Jeannette.   

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This week I’m privileged to share a vulnerable and intimate episode with our special guest, Dra. Diane Nevarez, who shares her experience being a Chicana PhD lecturer. Tune in to this episode to learn about what it’s like: teaching as a contingent professor with no insurance, while on government assistance, and while unable to afford rent in California, being a Chicana mother-scholar resisting the narrative that you can’t be a mom in academia, finding the silver linings in higher ed, like identifying all the good people and having access to spaces our parents didn’t have, and what happens when you find out you’re being undervalued in academia. 

To connect with and support Dr. Nevarez, you can follow her via chicana_di_aretes on Instagram and while you’re at it, get yourself a pair of beautiful handmade earrings.

To read the article she wrote for the LA Times, go here. 

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