Credit: Illustration by Nova Blanco-Rico.
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The University of California at Berkeley’s Hispanic-Serving Institutions Initiative began in 2018 with aims to get more Latinx students into the University of California’s system. The program was founded in 2018 by Frederico Castillo, an Environmental/Agricultural economist professor at UC Berkeley.
Alexandra Acevedo Grave (left), a fellow for the program in 2019, is now the program coordinator and Marina Chavez-Aleman, who currently resea…