Berkeley’s new Latinx Student Resource Center creates family away from home

October 14, 2022

When Jade Jaimes-Chavez moved to UC Berkeley in August, she was homesick.

As a first-generation undergraduate Latinx student, and the oldest of three sisters, she grew up taking care of her siblings with a close-knit family in Orange Cove, a predominately Chicanx/Latinx agricultural community in Central California. At Berkeley, she wasn’t sure she belonged, and she missed the support of her family...

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