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Writer Alejandra Campovardi on Friday talked about loneliness, emotional heritage and vulnerability with students of the first generation Haskel and University of Census.
The KU Center for Educational Opportunity Program and Haskel Triao Student Success Services welcomed the Campovardi, the author of “First Jean: A Memorial” on National Trio Day.
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There are 60 -year -old trio, federal programs in this year that help students to overcome the obstacles that face college and graduate as the first in their families. According to event organizers, an estimated 6 million students have graduated from college with the support of trio programs.
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Campovardi has received a master’s degree in public policy from Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He served as Deputy Director of the first White House of Hispanic media under President Barack Obama. She produced and appeared in the PBS documentary “Inheritance”, and he established the Latino and BRCA initiative to raise awareness about some cancer. She currently works in the boards of Harvard’s Shorestein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and California Community Foundation.
Campoverdi considers the first-round college experience “first and only” experience. “It is an emotional experience that any of us who has been the first to cross the threshold can identify.”
He said, “Earlier and only one of the biggest issues, surprise surprise, loneliness and separation,” he said.
Campovardi conducted a survey among the first generation college students before publishing his book. Polls revealed that 65% first-gene students realized that the experience of the first-Je college had a negative impact on their mental and emotional health.
The biggest issue affecting students of First-Jen College was financial insecurity, followed by loneliness and separation. “Number two is why I wrote this book,” he said.
“We are talking about millions of students and everyone in this room,” he said. “And if we are all feeling the same emotional, how do we all feel isolated?”
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Campovardi said that he grew up in a chaotic family system.
“The more I was working with chaos in my domestic life and my personal life, the more my grades were found,” he said. “It was as if I was being rewarded for using this perfection and getting high as a copying mechanism.”
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Campovardi told the students that it is important to think about what their decisions and achievements are running and they cannot get the balance they want, even if they continue to receive.
“What kind of ancestor do I want to be? Do I want to break the cycle or be a perfectist? ,
Beyond breaking the inter -state cycles of misconduct, Campovardi told the students about breaking the cycles, who do not relax, are not able to live in living mode, not to balance in life, and are not able to enjoy the fruits of their labor.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times Nubia Mahal is a KU McConaire Trio Scholar. When she was 14 years old, she came to Milan, Missouri with Syudad Juarez, Mexico.
As a young scholar, Campovardi was presented with the idea of Emposter syndrome. She was told that she would “overtake the Imposter syndrome” and warned that it was a confidence issue. Once she was in those new places, it happened to her that she had natural feelings of not being concerned. “We are working in the system, and no matter how confident we are,” the message that is reflected is “we are not,” he said.
He gave the example of colleagues in a workplace, leaving him.
“Do you think I was ahead of Emposter syndrome? Has it happened?” He asked. “Or do I recognize enough to recognize and recognize that there are systems that show us back that we are not part of them?”
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times is a student at Troy Baig, Nawazo, Haskel Indian Nations University.
He asked the students in the audience if they were going to school because someone asked him to be a student of first-ji, or because it was something important to attend school. By a show of hands, most students indicated that they are in school due to their internal drive.
“He himself,” he said. The way participation in school is self-proclaimed, bicycle-breaking is self-proclaimed.
“We all have heard about the generational trauma, but I take it a step further,” he said about the emotional heritage. “We have inherited many things. Not all of them are bad, some are beautiful, and I respect those heritage. ,
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“We are the ancestors of all whose steps we have,” he said, and the first-ji students “have been born with some extent underlying knowledge. Is it cumulative to your ancestors?”
A geneogram is involved behind the book of Campovardi, so readers can chart emotional mobility that have been passed and repeated through generations.
During the question-north-north-north part of the incident, a student asked Campovardi how they could be good stewers for the first-generations of students and how they can leave their schools better for students who come after them.
Campovardi replied, “You guys are focusing on everyone else … you have to keep your air mask before, or whatever they say on the aircraft.”
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She said she is not to teach them how to help the next generation, but she wants to help them learn to see themselves and their needs, “because it is directly related that you are going to be able to help the next generation.”
“What is it that you want right now?” How can you show for yourself? He asked.
He also said that vulnerability has the power to have a relationship with each other.
“You will inspire people by living your life,” he said.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times Lori Hasselman, Shaonny and Delaware, KU are the director of American and indigenous affairs and graduates of the first generation college.
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