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1. Huntington Library and Gardens (in Pasadena, CA)
2. Archdiocese of Los Angeles (the Catholic Church of Los Angeles)
3. Girl's State
4. Homeboy Industries (Boyle Heights, CA)
5. The 1984 Olympics (held in Los Angeles)
6. My mother (with me at the Huntington Library below!)
7. My older sister (we played school)
8. Learning video games at my public library you got to play for FREE on the brand new Apple 2E computers donated by a new little-known company called Apple Computers (Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? & Oregon Trail)
10. Public library (summer reading program where reading got you free pizza points!)
11. S.E. Hinton
12. Weekly piano lessons with Mrs. Crider
13. Dr. Williams (favorite undergraduate professor)

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1. My brother's Godfather, Lambros (told us stories & sang traditional Greek songs)

2. Playing Scrabble as a kid

3. Being translator for my immigrant parents, brother (before he learned English), and grandmother

4. basketball (coach gave us notebooks to learn plays)

5. Practicing my French when we would visit family in Montreal

6. Greek School (church)

7. Greek Mythology (giant book I read over and over)

8. Dr. Paul Goldstene (college)

9. Human Services 45 (an elective course where we tutored lementary school kids in reading)

10. Used to play 'school' with my neighbor, who was 1 year older than me. I was the student and she was the teacher (learned years later I was doing her homework)

11. Sesame Street & The Electric Company on Saturday mornings

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My grandfather's almanac

Full House (Thing before Fuller House)

Hollywood movie series on Friday nights (in Japan)

Essay writing contests (many Japanese school children participated in these as part of school curricula)

Friends from home

UCSB

My child's Spanish-English bilingual school

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-2 Grandmothers (pictured below at my college graduation) and their full journals and bookshelves
-being the only child meant being included in conversations as a peer, not a child
-community conversations
-Judy Blume
-Dr. Betsy Watson
-Jody Woodbury (HS English teacher) and Carl Woodbury (HS Gov't teacher)
-Thomas, my grandmother's Siamese cat (aka my best student)
-Reading Rainbow
-Sweet Valley High

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Eye exams.
Watching older sister record herself reading books.
First grade reading circles.
Moving to Australia in 6th grade and mispronouncing words when reading aloud in class.

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* Dora the Explorer
*PBS Kids
*Moving from the Bay Area to Sacramento
*Loteria (hispanic bingo)
*Having to translate at parent teacher conferences for my mom
*Babysitting younger siblings and cousins
*Going to Spanish and English catholic mass
*Interact Club
*Mr. Horner (BEST TEACHER AND HUMAN I HAVE EVER MET)

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1. Volleyball and Basketball

2. Coaches

3. Bad bunny

4. My mom

5. My dogs

6. Grey's anatomy

7. PBS kids

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- Dora The Explorer
- Wild Kratts ( show about 2 brothers exploring different types of animals)
- Dr. Niky ( a tiktok Pediatrician I look up to)
- My parents always motivating me to move forward
- My Bird Kevin
- Watching news in Spanish with my parents
-Learning how to pray in Spanish
- My mom's boss telling me she graduated from UC Davis and was super excited for me
- Mrs. Scott Beranades (5th grade English teacher)

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Coolmath4kids (online website with math games for kids)

Cooking dinner for my whole family every night

Gardening with my Grandma

Watching Sesame Street and Elmo

PBS Kids

Wild Kratts

Collecting house plants

Elementary school's after school program

Mika (my dog)

Swimming in the community pool

My Dad

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1. Dora the Explorer

2. My Mom (Speaking to me in Spanish)

3. Word World

4. Crash Course

5. My Dad (speaking both Spanish and English to me)

6. PBS Kids

7. My Spanish teacher (Mrs. Yanez)

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1. Echo Park Public Library (in Los Angeles, CA) (did reading summer programs)

2. Our Lady of Loretto Catholic Church (did my bible studies in Spanish for two years for my first communion)

3.  PBS kids

4. Qubo (watched so many educational and fun shows & did something funny and embarrassing while trying to remake a certain scene of a show on this channel)

5. Ion Life (used to be one of my favorite channels)

6. My parents (told me various stories of their lives / from leaving their homeland to making a living in American)

7. My vocal coach/choir instructor

8. My (former) bandmates (grew up together with many of the youths and sang a lot of our cultural and religious songs)

9. My childhood best friend

10. Changeist (a youth social justice org)

11. Brain Pop and other learning platforms that I got to use in the computer lab (in elementary)

12. Wunderkind Little Amadeus (learned so many things about classical music and fell in love with some of Mozart's music pieces)

13. Music (has always been a major part of my life and identity (culture, religion, etc.))

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1. My Mom

2. My Dad

3. Super why

4. sesame street

5. pbs kids

6. crash course

7. Marcus book store

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List of Sponsors:

TV Shows:

PBS Kids

Word World

Sesame Street

Arthur

People:

My cousin Amy would help me with homework and read to me

My brother Jeffrey also helped me with homework

My friends would explain new words to me

Classroom:

All my previous professors

English workbooks

Going to office hours to meet a TA when I struggle

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1. My grandmother
2. My parents
3. Mx. Solo (My AP Lit teacher)
4. Harry Styles
5. Dora the Explorer
6. Word girl
7. South Gate Public Library
8. QUBO/ PBS Kids
9. ABCmouse
10. Barney

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1. Hearing my grandma's stories as a kid

2. Watching my brother do his homework as a kid

3. My mom

4. My stepdad

5. My pastors

6. Grey's anatomy

7. Soccer coach

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1. Hamilton High School

2. Parents

3. Khan Academy

4. Soccer Coach

5. Football Coach

6. Band Practice

7. Tests

8. Dora

9. ETS

10. National Geographic