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How I Started Building My Own Community

In this clip, a first-gen Mexican UW student shares how she built a community at UW. She describes the different programs that allowed her to meet new people and form connections.

That was really fun too being online and having the same background like we were all first generation immigrants. Most of us we were all Mexican too so we were able to bond over the experience of living at home and our mom is making tortillas and yelling at us to come clean.