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🚀 Ready to take your next step? The HeadStart Fellowship is a virtual program helping FirstGen students build skills + gain experience.

📅 Apply by Aug. 28!

Get a HEADSTART on your future. 💙

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#FirstGenProud #Fellowship #FirstGenSuccess
August 26, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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💡 Since 2004, The Lamp of Learning has awarded $312,000 in scholarships to 72 incredible students and we're just getting started!

#LampOfLearning #FirstGenSuccess #ScholarshipsMatter
#SanDiegoStudents #MentorshipMatters #CollegeBound
July 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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📚 PCC just made history: launching its first-ever bachelor’s degree *and* locking in $4M for student support. Degrees and safety nets, side by side. #TRiO #FirstGenSuccess #EducationJustice
🌟 PCC Secures $4 Million in TRiO Funding to Serve 360 First-Generation Students, Begins Offering Bachelor's Degree
While Trump administration cuts similar programs nationwide, Pima Community College quietly protects pathways for our most vulnerable students
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August 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Dear first-gen grads: Your background isn't your limitation - it's your superpower!

How does it feel to be the first in your family to break professional barriers?

#FirstGenSuccess #GradSzn #GameChanger #FirstGenInTech
December 11, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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🎙️ This week on The FirstGen Lounge, Justin Reyes shares how a series of accidental opportunities, community support, and a commitment to serving others helped him find his voice.​
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#F#FirstGenL#LeadershipF#FirstGenSuccess
July 19, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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🎙This week on The FirstGen Lounge, Salisha Bhola shares how she turned instinct, resilience, and lived experience into a career helping others find opportunity.​ 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1FaV... #T#TalentAcquisitionL#LeadershipF#FirstGenSuccess ​
June 23, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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Behind every great idea is a great conversation. Let’s keep talking. 💬
#InnovationMatters #FirstGen #FirstGenProud #Quote #FirstGenSuccess #CelebrateFirstGen #Trailblazer
December 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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🎙️ This week on The FirstGen Lounge, we meet Ashley Inocencio, who went from being two math levels behind to graduating on time, and landing a role at PLSA in San Diego.​

🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/25tX...

#FirstGen #FirstGenSuccess #UCIrvine ​
August 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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🎙️ This week on The FirstGen Lounge: She didn’t know what internships were or how to network—but she figured it out anyway. Anna Mercado shares what no one tells FirstGen students.
🎧https://open.spotify.com/episode/1xM3TZw3BbN4mJNiqnSmC2?si=lJRHbamYQc6rXkmwMGTpig

#FirstGenSuccess #LatinaInSTEM
July 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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🎙️ Join us on The FirstGen Lounge with Remi Taffin, a tech leader turned entrepreneur! Discover his journey from France to founding Hundredfold Growth, an AI venture for small businesses.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0yhP...
#FirstGen #FirstGenSuccess #CelebrateFirstGen #AI #Entrepreneurship
July 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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🎙️On the FirstGen Lounge, we have Jill Tracy — global leader, Peace Corps alum, former Microsoft exec, and now CEO of United Planet. A powerful episode about recognizing potential early and leading with head and heart.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/6FLM...
#FirstGenSuccess #WomenInLeadership
June 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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🎙️On the FirstGen Lounge, we have Jill Tracy — global leader, Peace Corps alum, former Microsoft exec, and now CEO of United Planet. A powerful episode about seeing potential early and leading with heart.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/6FLM...
#FirstGenSuccess #AttitudeOfGratitude
June 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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🎙️Join Abaigh MacDonald at The FirstGen Lounge as she talks with Mahika Shah, a FirstGen Canadian STEM student and author of Morii, as they discuss her journey from Wyoming to California's tech scene.
🎧 Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6Ulv...
#FirstGen #FirstGenSuccess #CelebrateFirstGen
June 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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🎙️ Turn your passion into a business! Join Abaigh Macdonald on The FirstGen Lounge with Jordan Rupp of Rupp Family Kitchen LLC discussing culinary roots & entrepreneurship.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0lF9...
#FirstGen #FirstGenSuccess #CelebrateFirstGen #Entrepreneurship #ChefLife
June 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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🎙️ From Costa Rica to New Jersey, Maria Salazar shares her story of resilience, hope, and self-compassion on The FirstGen Lounge with host Abaigh MacDonald.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/661K... #FirstGen #FirstGenSuccess #Resilience #Empathy #HopeInHardship
June 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The inspiring story of Vanessa Servedio, a resilient first-generation individual who journeyed from Ecuador to Miami and is now pursuing a Masters at Harvard University.

open.spotify.com/episode/0QEs... #firstgen #firstgensuccess #firstgenprofessional #firstgenc#firstgensuccessp#firstgenprofessional
April 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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"Your path being different doesn't mean you don't get there" is just one of Grace Knight's quotes in this new episode of "The FirstGen Lounge".

open.spotify.com/episode/5C7y...
#firstgen #firstgensuccess #firstgencollegestudent #talent #consultant

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"Your path being different doesn't mean you don't get there", ft. Grace Knight, Consultant
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April 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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🎙️ Host Yamini interviews Rimshah, an electrical engineer pursuing a master's in public informatics at Rutgers U., about her experiences as a first-generation international student and mother transitioning to life in the US.
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"Get Help. Get the Support That You Need", ft. Rimshah Jawad, Mother and Public Informatics student
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February 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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New freshman attending UWW this fall? Kick off your college journey with purpose & community by your side! The K/C Program at UWW offers a launchpad to becoming a changemaker. Apply today! admit.uww.edu/register/kin...

#kingchavez #FirstGenSuccess
June 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Check out the AMAZING work of this King/Chávez AND McNair scholar! www.uww.edu/news/archive... TRIO & EOP are honored to be a part of your journey and can't wait to see you erupt with even more success in the future!

#TRIOWorks #EOP #McNairScholars #GoldwaterScholar #FirstGenSuccess
Goldwater Scholarship | UW-Whitewater
Warhawk earns Goldwater Scholarship for research
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May 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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So true for many FirstGens.

“You only need one person to believe in you”

says Abaigh MacDonald in this podcast from The FirstGen Lounge. #celebrateFirstGens #WomeninSTEM #FirstGen #FirstGensuccess #STEM
thefirstgenlounge.bsky.social The FirstGen Lounge @thefirstgenlounge.bsky.social · Sep 28
🎙️ This week on The FirstGen Lounge, our host Abaigh becomes the interviewee and shares her story! 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/5M5u... #F#FirstGenW#WomenInSTEMU#UCIRvineP#Podcasting#T#TheFirstGenLounge #U#UCIRvine
September 30, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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It’s a moment that hits home for many FirstGen creatives—the realization that while others grow up with insider knowledge, you’re learning the industry from scratch.

Jordan Allen shares his journey.
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#FirstGen #FirstGenSuccess #CelebrateFirstGen
thefirstgenlounge.bsky.social The FirstGen Lounge @thefirstgenlounge.bsky.social · Sep 6
🎙️ This week on The FirstGen Lounge, Jordan Allen, a southern soul artist, share how he learned the music industry from scratch and built a brand rooted in faith, family, and retro soul.​
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#F#FirstGenS#SingerSongerwriterS#SoulArtist
September 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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That’s the FirstGen mindset: we will figure it out!
#firstgen #firstgensuccess #celebratefirstgen #academia #latina #stem
thefirstgenlounge.bsky.social The FirstGen Lounge @thefirstgenlounge.bsky.social · Jul 21
🎙️ This week on The FirstGen Lounge: She didn’t know what internships were or how to network—but she figured it out anyway. Anna Mercado shares what no one tells FirstGen students.
🎧https://open.spotify.com/episode/1xM3TZw3BbN4mJNiqnSmC2?si=lJRHbamYQc6rXkmwMGTpig

#FirstGenSuccess #LatinaInSTEM
August 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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"Those of us that pursue our doctorate, it's not that we're smarter than anyone else, it's that we keep going. We fall down, we get back up, and we sacrifice."

So well said. Worth a listen of the whole episode.

#firstgen #PhD #firstgensuccess
thefirstgenlounge.bsky.social The FirstGen Lounge @thefirstgenlounge.bsky.social · Aug 6
🎙️Resilience. Kindness. Persistence. This week on The FirstGen Lounge, hear how Lori Marie went from almost giving up on college to mentoring the next generation.​

🎧​ open.spotify.com/episode/4mLV...

#FirstGen #MSUDenver​

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August 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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FirstGen advancing other FirstGens 👏👏👏 @ajdiazphd.bsky.social #firstgen #firstgensuccess
ajdiazphd.bsky.social Dr. Arnaldo Díaz @ajdiazphd.bsky.social · Jul 17
As a first-generation college student, building a network was not an easy task. Now that I’ve come a long way, I make it a priority to leverage my network to support other first-generation individuals embarking on their own professional paths. #FirstGen
August 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM