Hello. My name is Mary Maxine Arreguine-Casimiro. I'm a TRIO SSS participant at NEIU.
I successfully advocated for Northeastern Illinois University to partner with the National College Resource Fund in hosting the first Latino College Expo at NEIU. As a recent college transfer student from California, I didn't realize how big the Latino community was here in Chicago. The Latino College Expo has been hosted in California for ten years and I thought what better school than NEIU to host the first Latino College Expo, not just in Chicago, but in the Midwest.
As someone who comes from the foster care system, I am working to build a clear pathway for transitioning foster youth aging out of care to not only get into college/university but to make it all the way to graduation.
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