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Ask Aneita Gage how it felt to be the only black, female engineering student at San Diego State University in the mid 1980s, and she’ll declare a single word. “Lonely.” She had to prove to unsupportive professors that she was just as capable as other students and stayed positive through a network of other black […]

Lupe Segura immigrated to the U.S, when she was 13 years old. A lack of English skills quickly diminished her self-confidence and left her struggling in her classes at the low-performing schools she attended in Oakland.   And, as the daughter of a housewife and a construction worker, she had no footsteps to follow on […]