In preparation for our third annual Pupil Voice Summit, Conscious Practices had a possibility to talk with Melivia Mujica, a primary technology school scholar, at the moment a senior at Texas A&M Kingsville. Melivia isn’t any stranger to utilizing her voice as a teenager to enact change in her group.
As a excessive schooler, Melivia was a devoted scholar, besides, she nonetheless felt like she didn’t fairly belong. This expertise in itself isn’t unusual for center and highschool college students, however what Melivia did in response exhibits us the resilience and energy that younger folks can have once they converse up.
Melivia and a small group of friends who additionally felt uncomfortable at college started assembly in a trainer’s classroom throughout their lunch to create “Enrichment Membership.” Initially, Melivia reviews that she and loads of the opposite college students in Enrichment Membership have been coming from an excessive place of angst, however as an alternative of staying in a spot of commiseration, they started brainstorming methods to resolve the problems they have been offended about.
Certainly one of their first initiatives was to prepare a ‘Know Your Rights’ seminar and usher in immigration advocates and legal professionals from RAICES to current to all households and college students about their rights and the right way to maintain secure.
From the success of this Know Your Rights seminar, they realized that they did have a voice, scholar points did matter, and that they might make an actual distinction of their group. This impressed them to maintain tackling tough points they observed, and finally resulted within the creation of The Care Zone.
