UC Berkeley Chicanx Latinx Alumni Association- East Bay

Please share!! Application deadline: 0ctober 27! Please note that the link is case sensitive. We can’t wait to read all about our students! https://docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/e/1FAIpQLSeLBUXsUfPfOBde9t_tzl0P3-eUcHmz_ZCYW0ByI4OsTP0aYQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

✨JOIN US! ✨ Calling All Alumni and Incoming Students!! Our New Student Welcome Party is this upcoming Saturday, August 5, 2023! Date: Saturday, August 5th, 2023
Time: 12:30pm-3:00pm
Place: Codornices Park in Berkeley - Picnic Area #2
1201 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94708
RSVP: https://forms.gle/HwaxWU632b8Yncr86
Charge: $10 alumni/adults and $5.00 students/children
Venmo: -East Bay Last 4 digits: 0188

Go Bears! Go Osxs! 🐻 💙💛 (RSVP in Bio!)

🐻 Meet the East Bay CLAA Chapter Board Members! 🐻

✳ Introducing: Juanita Chavez Gordon ✳
🔹Class of 1997 with a degree in Chicano Studies/Education
🔹Current Profession: Time Off, Disability & Accommodations Analyst
🔹 Board Position: Co-Chair
🔹 Why are you a part of East Bay CLAA? I am a part of EB CLAA to stay connected with my peers and future generations of brown educated seres de luz. Being part of the alumni association means I survived & succeeded through the Cal system so I can now offer informed support & give back by sponsoring events to network & fundraise.

🐻 Meet the East Bay CLAA Chapter Board Members! 🐻

✳ Introducing: René Venegas ✳
🔹Class of 1995 with a degree in History
🔹Current Profession: Emergency Physician
🔹Board Position: Recorder
🔹Why are you a part of East Bay CLAA? I joined CLAA because I wanted to be a positive influence in supporting our Latinx students as well as being part of a community helping to address the many issues facing our students, including social justice, diversity and equity issues.

🐻 Meet the East Bay CLAA Chapter Board Members! 🐻

✴ Introducing: Andrés Eugenio Jiménez Montoya ✴
🔹PhD Program, Political Science, 1975-81 with his Master’s Degree Awarded in 2014

🔹 Current Profession:
- Director of Emeritus, UC California Policy Research Center
- President and CEO of Inclusión Américas (InAméricas), a non-profit organization

🔹Board Position: Co-Chair of Membership

🔹 Why are you a part of East Bay CLAA?
My mission and goals are to make UC Berkeley Latina and Latino Alumni part of the campus Latinx serving community. I want to support the instructional, research, and public service programs at UC Berkeley to advance equity and the well-being of the nation’s Mexican American and Latinx populations.

Alumni: join us for a CLAA Scholarship Gathering and Alumni Mixer next Friday, March 17, 2023 from 4:30pm - 7:30pm. This will be held at the Latinx Student Resource Center (Heart Field Annex, Building B). Make sure to RSVP using the link in our bio!

The East Bay CLAA chapter is hosting an in-person social on Thursday, January 12, 2023 from 6-8pm at the new Latinx Student Resource Center! We welcome all students and alumni to join us 🐻! (This will replace our usual monthly meeting for January 2023)

Please join our students in the opening of the new Latinx Student Resource and Community Center! 🐻💙💛

We’re still looking for readers for our upcoming scholarship readings! We will be giving out scholarships to many students at the Legacy Event and need readers to help us select recipients. We hope you can donate your time to read impactful stories from our current Cal students. Link to sign up is in our bio! 🐻💛💙

The second Legacy Kickoff Event will be happening next Thursday, July 21, 2022 from 6:00pm - 9:00pm at Ola RestoBar in Downey, California! RSVP to join us!! 🐻💙🌟

SAVE THE DATE: 2022 Latinx Legacy Weekend
DATES: September 30, 2022-October 2, 2022

If you’re interested in learning about our programming, please feel free to reach out!! We will be selling tickets for the scholarship brunch. More details to come 🐻💛💙

💙💛🐻GO BEARS 🐻💛💙 Thank you to all of our alumni who joined us for our Taco Bar Mixer!! We had such a great time catching up after so long. We hope to see you all soon. If you couldn’t make it today, we hope to see you at one of our upcoming events. Stay tuned 🍴

We want to give a BIG thank you to all of our presenters and board members! We could not done it without you! Our first CLAA Yield Event was a success 🐻💙💛💙💛

Congratulations to the Class of 2025 - we can't wait to have you and your family join the Osxs familia!