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Celebration as resistance is one of the many ideas I received from my internship. If it wasn’t for INVST, I wouldn’t be celebrating the awareness of the importance of building a community. With the help of the scholarship I am able to use those couple hours that would usually be spent at a part-time job to connect with the community. Thanks to INVST, I get to learn about the community I’m in and not just be a student on campus, not knowing the community I’m surrounded by. I have always had a passion to give back to the community and with INVST I am able to. Even with life issues, first generation status, and current presidential administration pressure, INVST has built a safe space for me and future recipients who share a common dream.
-INVST alum and Dreamer Juan Lomeli Ortiz
INVST exposed me to this worldview, of the injustices of the world, but also to the extraordinary efforts by those who believe we can indeed build a more just, peaceful and equal world.
-Christine Ahn, INVST alumna and founder of
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Inclusion Commitment:
We actively seek and support the participation of individuals and communities that reflect diversity of ability status, age, color, documentation status, ethnicity, gender, gender variance, life experience, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, and veteran status.
Commitment to Anti-oppressive Education:
INVST Community Studies is committed to anti-oppressive education. We acknowledge the importance of examining not only how groups are oppressed but also how groups are privileged and how these two processes maintain social structures. We are dedicated to challenging dominant ideologies and systems, centering traditionally underrepresented voices, questioning the assumption that information is unbiased, and critiquing what is thought of as normal.