In honor and celebration of Women’s Empowerment Month, we’re featuring women, particularly BIPOC women in leadership, who are taking action for equality and paving the way for our future leaders. We had the opportunity to sit down with Christine Start, …
Students Rising Above hosted the first ever Virtual Career Development Winter Workshop Part 1 on Saturday, January 16, 2021 on Zoom. Thank you so much to all our students, volunteers, and staff for a great event! Organized by the incredible …
About Edylwise: Edylwise Romero is a Students Rising Above alum from the class of 2015. She graduated from Carleton College in 2019 with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Her pursuit of broadening her global experience led to her minors in …
As the world shifted in response to the unforeseen circumstances the pandemic presented, students were forced to adapt their summer plans, some even facing internship and program cancellations, Students Rising Above (SRA) sought to offer additional career development opportunities to …
Alondra Vazquez is currently an incoming junior at Yale University, double majoring in Ethnicity Race, and Migration, and Studio Art. Alondra is working as a Fellow at the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc.,(CLINIC), in Washington, as part of the FirstGEN …
SRA Scholar Emma Ottum is a rising college senior at UC Riverside, pursuing a major in Industrial Organizational Psychology with a Minor in Human Resources. She is passionate about Industrial Organizational Psychology and how in intersects with business and professional …
June 19, 2019 — Today, Students Rising Above launched, CODEversity, an eight week, virtual coding camp, offering college students the fundamentals of coding while gaining career exposure through visits at leading tech companies throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, including …
Students Rising Above works to close college attainment gaps and helps students break the cycle of poverty by achieving their college and career dreams. With SRA’s support, 91% of our students graduate from college in 5 years or less, and …
Carina Bustos is an SRA alum, and a first-generation college graduate from Occidental College in 2015, majoring in Critical Theory and Social Justice. While in college, Carina took advantage of Students Rising Above’s robust career development support, landing internships with …
UC Berkeley Professor and Founder of Bay Area Legal Incubator Increases Justice and the Diversity Pipeline for the Legal Profession Internships are a key part of the college-to-career experience. Data shows a majority of employers believe that internship experience is …