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Student stories
Finding a home at La Casa
GABRIEL ESCOBEDO, GRADUATE ASSISTANT AT LA CASA LATINO CULTURAL CENTER
"Immediately, the directors treated me like family. I felt like they were my aunts."
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From barely speaking to Commencement speaker
GRACE SHEN, 2016 IU BLOOMINGTON COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER
“When you do start the conversation, you learn a lot from each other.”
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The first in her family to go to college
CHANTEL WHITE, GROUPS SCHOLAR
“Our parents tried as hard as they could, but they didn’t know the first thing about buying college textbooks.”
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