What does it feel like to leave home for college when leaving home means leaving the people who depend on you?
Irvin Ramirez knows that feeling well, and has spent his PhD trying to find the language for it. A second-year doctoral student in educational leadership and higher education, Irvin researches the experiences of Hispanic and immigrant students at predominantly white institutions, drawing directly on his own journey as a first-generation, first-gen Latino scholar navigating a system that was never designed with him in mind.
In this episode, we talk about identity tuning, the guilt that first-gen students rarely name, why intersectionality doesn’t go far enough, and what it means to bring people up the mountain with you. Keep learning, keep questioning.
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