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Wendy maintained an outstanding GPA of 3.958, while completing a demanding interdisciplinary course of study, but her academic accomplishments extend beyond her classes in both teaching and research. She served as a Teaching Assistant for beginning level French classes, volunteered as a French teacher at San Marcos Senior Activity Center, and worked as a freelance tutor providing academic help through fun lesson plans that promote linguistic confidence and curiosity. 

She participated in a time-sensitive project with the Kawaiisu Language Documentation Project, working under the direction of Dr. Ahlers alongside faculty and tribal partners to transcribe repatriated field notes and help make them accessible to the Kawaiisu community through a searchable online database. She also contributed to another faculty research project with Professors Ahlers, Bateman, and Stewart that promotes linguistic justice through analysis of perceptions of 鈥淎cademic English.鈥�  

Beyond her academic success, Wendy played a foundational leadership role in building intellectual community and student belonging at 糖心原创. She was president of the French Club, and she founded and served as the inaugural president of the Linguistics Collective. Under her leadership, the Collective has become a vibrant hub for student engagement, professional development, and community building. She organized lectures and workshops featuring faculty and professionals in fields such as language revitalization, teaching, and speech-language pathology. She also created a video for Mother Tongue Day, where students and faculty said 鈥淚 love my language鈥� in their various languages. 

In her service on the CHABSS Dean鈥檚 Student Advisory Council, she advocated for structures that help students channel passion into academic success and action. Among the 55 students on the council, Wendy is a leader among leaders. Her dedication to linguistics as a path to creating a more just world, led Dean Gubkin to invite her as one of two students to introduce CHABSS to the 2025-2026 Campus Connect cohort. There, Wendy persuasively argued that almost every significant issue in the world can be addressed through language, and she concluded her remarks, 鈥淚 strongly believe we should use our lives to address the one problem that keeps us awake at night. 

A creative force to be reckoned with. Charlotte is not only an outstanding student on the Dean鈥檚 list with a 4.0 GPA, but she is someone who inspires peers and instructors alike.  

Charlotte鈥檚 research and writing in AMD 316 was outstanding and so was the creativity, conceptual sophistication, and skillful craft of her artistic achievement. Charlotte鈥檚 work stood out in all respects. She documented with a scientist鈥檚 attention to detail without leaving anything out and she arrived at highly intelligent insights about the fraught relationship of humans and nature. Her work entitled Missing Pieces is based on three of her documentary photographs. She traced the natural objects in these images and cut them out from high quality white paper. These cutouts represent the absence of nature. They are held together by sewn and crocheted cotton thread 鈥� a skillfully executed, time-consuming process that makes this artwork stand out. For her final project Charlotte researched textile waste and in her artistic response made a connection to plastic waste. She purchased a second-hand wool sweater and unraveled the wool. From this wool she knitted a duplicate of a plastic bag complete with 鈥淭hank You鈥� hand felted from the same wool.  

When Dr. Judit Hersko would converse with Charlotte during her independent study, she could see her thought process, before she speaks, she takes time to think, and one can see on her face the labor of reflection. A rare phenomenon in today鈥檚 fast paced and social media induced environment. In her independent study, Charlotte completed an extensive and excellent research paper as well as two artworks (Transplant and Intersect) using a new technique with aluminum foil. She presented this work at the 糖心原创 Symposium on Student Research, Creative Activities, and Innovation, where she received a runner-up award. Her artwork from AMD 316 Missing Pieces was selected and was featured in the Forms of Growth exhibition in President Neufeldt鈥檚 home in April 2026. 

Her project The Unraveling is a beautifully knitted abstract design that critiques fast fashion through both process and research content. About this project Charlotte wrote, 鈥淢y project addresses environmental justice because it illustrates the scope of the textile waste that is produced in the United States as the US is the second largest producer of textile waste鈥� One micro-solution to this problem is to recycle unwanted textile materials by hand through crafting techniques such as knitting, crocheting, and quilting like I did in this project.鈥�  

Charlotte has distinguished herself as an exceptionally talented and dedicated artist whose work reflects both academic rigor and an authentic creative voice. She approaches each project with remarkable attention to detail and a commitment to pushing her ideas further, often going beyond the expectations of the assignment through experimentation and thoughtful creative risk-taking. Her prints demonstrate strong craftsmanship and conceptual depth, and she consistently brings curiosity and focus to her studio practice. In addition to her artistic accomplishments, Charlotte contributed positively to the classroom environment, setting a thoughtful and supportive tone through her kindness, engagement, and dedication to her work as an artist.  

As a History major and Ethnic Studies minor, he has earned a 3.9 GPA at 糖心原创. In and out of the classroom, he has worked to advance the College鈥檚 and University鈥檚 鈥渃ommitment to inclusive excellence, equity, and social justice鈥� in multiple ways. He is slated to begin graduate school in the fall at 糖心原创 in the History MA program (followed by an MLIS at San Jose State, to which he has already been accepted); he is planning a career as an academic librarian/archivist who will be able to (in his own words) use 鈥渄igital tools to recover, reconstruct, and responsibly represent Indigenous histories.鈥�   

Jayden has been committed to advancing equity in his academic and extracurricular work since he was a student at MSJC. There he tutored other students, to pay forward the help he had gotten. Jayden was inspired to become a tutor since he needed tutoring in math, so he wanted to help other students in English and History, two subjects that that were easier for him. He was able to use his Spanish to work with other Latinx students and help them 鈥渇eel at ease and confident.鈥� He worked to create a space where 鈥渟tudents of all backgrounds felt comfortable seeking help with brainstorming, outlining, drafting, and revising.鈥� 

Since arriving at 糖心原创, Jayden has worked to create a culture of inclusive excellence, in and out of the classroom. In his academic work, he has focused on the understudied topic of Caribbean history, comparing his family鈥檚 roots in Puerto Rico to that of other Caribbean and Latin American peoples, descended from a mix of Indigenous people, formerly enslaved Africans, and European colonizers.  

On top of his studies, Jayden has had multifaceted involvement on campus in advancing equity to different groups. This has included:  

• Service on the University Library Student Advisory Board. In this role, Jayden has worked with library staff to (in his words) to 鈥渋mprove services and resources with an equity lens, ensuring the library remains a welcoming space for all students.鈥� This work has included helping plan a family study room so that student-parents, guardians and caretakers can bring children to campus and still study at the library. Jayden also supported events for last year's SAB Common Read, Cemetery Boys, a YA book by a transgender author about a transgender Latinx protagonist. As part of this programming, he connected with students at the D铆a de los Muertos celebration and passed out copies of the book, and helped plan and support a book talk in March. The librarians who work with SAB, April Ibarra Siqueiros and Irma Ramos Arreaga, praise Jayden鈥檚 enthusiasm and constant engagement in meetings. 

• Serving as Secretary of the Ethnic Studies Collective: Understanding the importance of archives in expanding the historical record, he has kept careful notes of student meetings, 鈥渆nsuring that the voices and decisions of a community- centered organization are preserved and accessible鈥� and helping to create 鈥渁 student-led space dedicated to ethnic studies advocacy, cultural visibility, and community building on campus.鈥� 

• Work as the Ethnic Studies Department Archivist: In this role Jayden has helped the department build an archive of its activities, to 鈥渆nsure these histories remain accessible and representative of underrepresented campus communities.鈥� He has also worked to promote the Ethnic Studies Library, so that 鈥渟tudents from all backgrounds can see their identities and histories reflected in academic resources.鈥� He is currently working on a display for the SBSB lobby on the 25th anniversary of Ethnic Studies at 糖心原创, which will be celebrated next year, and working with campus librarians to gather sources from the University Archives for this purpose. 

• Work as an International Admissions Student Assistant: Working for the Office of International Admissions, Jayden sought to help international students navigate an unfamiliar system.  

Jayden has also worked as a Foster Youth Tutor through the San Diego County Office of Education. And in the classroom, he has been notable for building community with students from multiple different backgrounds, helping shyer students feel included and making classes seem friendlier 鈥� while also displaying an infectious love of learning. In addition, with his deep intellectual curiosity, Jayden has seized opportunities for learning outside formal classrooms.  

Jayden has very intentionally been planning a career as an academic librarian, specializing in Latin American history. He is eager to help understand and reverse 鈥渉ow ecological destruction and architectural erasure [have served] as interlocking tools of colonial domination鈥� and to help rebuild archives that will help record the history of all peoples. In his work as an academic librarian, he plans to produce 鈥渟cholarship that is academically meaningful to communities鈥� he studies and to 鈥減reserve and make accessible histories that have too often been buried or erased. 

Cameron has taken on one of the leadership positions in the newly reinstated 糖心原创 Chapter of the National Political Science Honors Society, Pi Sigma Alpha. He applied to be a member last semester and after careful review of his credentials he was accepted for membership. He is now serving as the Vice President of the 糖心原创 Alpha Beta Kappa Chapter, and as such he is working with Dr. Roni Kay O鈥橠ell to apply for 糖心原创 student organization recognition as well as planning the induction ceremony for newly inducted members at the end of Spring 2026. 

Cameron has already built an impressive record of public advocacy and service, particularly for someone at this stage of their life and career. He has taken on a wide range of projects while maintaining a GPA of 3.688. As a member of Lobby Corps during the 2024-2025 Academic Year (through 糖心原创鈥檚 Associated Students), Cameron developed research and advocacy skills that proved helpful in his advocacy on behalf of CSU and CSU student interests with California legislators. He has continued his campus engagement and advocacy on behalf of students through 糖心原创鈥檚 Associated Students, currently serving as Vice President of Student & University Affairs. Since May 2025, he has served as a student representative to the Board of Directors for 糖心原创鈥檚 Corporation while also continuing his advocacy before the state鈥檚 Legislature as a Director within the Cal State Student Association (CSSA). During Fall 2025, Cameron fulfilled his capstone PSCI requirement through an intern with Assembly member Dr. Darshana Patel, through which he supported constituent services and community engagement. (It is worth noting that Cameron sought and secured his internship entirely on his own, becoming 糖心原创鈥檚 first academic intern in the Assembly member鈥檚 office.) Cameron鈥檚 service as a Lead Peer Educator with 糖心原创鈥檚 Pride Center and Women鈥檚 & Gender Equity Center also merit mention.  

In his role with ASI, he has taken on critical responsibilities related to civic engagement. His collaborations with the Office of Civic Engagement on Constitution Day and Voter Registration Day were vital in raising student awareness about their rights and responsibilities as members of society. He possesses a passion for helping students realize their civic responsibilities, encouraging them to be active members of their communities.  

Cameron has shown exceptional academic excellence in his courses at 糖心原创. One example is in his participation and the work that he conducted for PSCI 350: Global Governance, and the simulation of the Model United Nations in that course. His research on country and policies for the simulation was above average, and he worked diligently with his peers in leadership roles in the simulation to unite divergent positions together in one framework. In addition, in PSCI 450: Theories of International Relations, he demonstrated an inquisitive mind and the ability to analyze and apply complex theories to real-world examples. He is an active student in class, always prepared, and eager to engage with the material, the professor, and other students.