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How Foster Care Prepared Me for Grad School
Dylan Cohen is a grad student, an organizer, a Jew, and a Red River Metis former youth in care. He's worked at the intersections of youth movements and child welfare policy, leading initiatives 25not21 and Fostering Change. Cohen designed Policy Solutions Day, an annual advocacy event bringing 50+ young people to meet with dozens of ministers and elected officials to champion policy change in Canada. He once helped make the provincial Premier cry. Cohen studies City Planning at MIT.
How to Break Past Trauma
Ashley Calderon currently attends the University of California, Berkeley in pursuit of a degree in sociology. Calderon served as a peer mentor for foster youth attending Norco College and as an advisor for high school students in the Corona-Norco Unified School District. She is also a former intern for State Senator Connie Leyva who oversees the 20th Senate District in Pomona, CA. She is continuing her advocacy work by identifying and proposing solutions that address social determinants of health especially through her involvement in the Reproductive Health Equity Project for Foster Youth, a California based initiative. Calderon uses her lived experience as her motivation to pursue research about the child welfare system.
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