On the evening of Tuesday, October 24th, Sariling Atin: We Are Our Stories, an inaugural literary reading, was held in G-101 to celebrate Filipino American History Month.
Troy Cristobal is the winner of this year’s 2020 Mesa Scholarship President’s Award, given annually to a deserving Mesa College student who demonstrates leadership and academic excellence in their undergraduate career. Troy is a worthy recipient on both counts, having served as team captain for Mesa’s track and field team since the spring of 2019, and set to graduate this May as an Engineering major with a cumulative 4.0 GPA.
The Olympian Speech and Debate team is living up to its reputation as a competitive, award-winning force. After competing in four tournaments during the fall, and a fifth this semester, the Mesa Speech and Debate Team has racked up numerous titles and awards. They have been working hard and achieving success at competitions across the nation, including in New York, where Mesa students Franklin McKenzie and Katya Azzam garnered a well-earned parliamentary debate win against Ivy League Cornell University’s team (see below for a full list of achievements).
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Feb. 05, 2020) – Local community college students will be able to access and attain a San Diego State University degree through new partnerships with two community colleges without ever having to step foot on the SDSU campus. As an initial pilot of the SDSU microsite model, SDSU will launch bachelor’s degree completion programs at San Diego Mesa College and Southwestern College in Business Administration and Criminal Justice, beginning with the 2020-2021 academic year. Additional programs are being planned for future years
November 6, 2017
On the evening of Tuesday, October 24th, Sariling Atin: We Are Our Stories, an inaugural literary reading, was held in G-101 to celebrate Filipino American History Month. The first event of its kind at Mesa College, it featured local Filipino American writers, including City College English instructor Ella deCastro Baron—author of Itchy Brown Girl Seeks Employment— Mesa’s Assistant Professor of English Jennifer Derilo, and former Mesa student and former Miramar College English instructor Jason Magabo Perez, who read from his recently published book, This Is for the Mostless.
These writers touched on themes surrounding illness, dislocation, resilience, and belonging. Poet Hari Alluri and former VAMP performers Edward Aparis and Jon Briones also shared their powerful work on themes of family, loss, diaspora, and struggle while still maintaining threads of hope and humor. It was a moving, and sometimes comical, showcase emceed beautifully by counselor Gabriel Adona.
Tags: Filipino American Writers, We Are Our Stories, Filipino American History Month, Literary Reading
Jennifer Nichols Kearns
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On the evening of Tuesday, October 24th, Sariling Atin: We Are Our Stories, an inaugural literary reading, was held in G-101 to celebrate Filipino American History Month.
