By KENIA The Diversity Scholarship Foundation is offering multiple scholarships to “students seeking a career in the legal profession who have maintained a high GPA and are actively participating or supporting diversity related programs.” Here are the eligibility requirements for this… Read More ›
By DIANA I was born into a single-mother household in Tijuana, Mexico. When I was only six years old, my mother managed to get me and my two older siblings a tourist visa so that after two years of separation we… Read More ›
By DIANA (Interviewed by Carolina) Diana was born in Mexico and moved to the U.S. at the age of 13. In 2011, she graduated from California State University San Marcos with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration and a minor in… Read More ›
At My Undocumented Life, we had an opportunity to interview Carlos, a doctoral student in the department of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, to learn more about his work on immigration and education more broadly. We thank him for… Read More ›
MEET OUR TEAM Carolina founded My Undocumented Life in 2011 as a platform for undocumented communities to obtain up-to-date information and resources on pursuing higher education, immigration policies, and much more. She grew up undocumented in the U.S. for over… Read More ›
By NORMA, DIANA, and CAROLINA Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is an executive order that was implemented by President Obama in June 2012 in response to growing immigrant youth-led organizing across the country. DACA provided a type of liminal immigration status where… Read More ›
We are excited to share a video recording of the brief presentation that we gave at the start of the workshop. See video below. On May 16, 2020, we hosted the UndocuGrads Virtual Workshop where we discussed key information and… Read More ›
MEET OUR GUEST CONTRIBUTORS! Click on the contributor’s name to view their posts. Anamaria graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Education from Brown. She was born in Bogota, Colombia and moved to the U.S. when she was six years old. She… Read More ›
By RACHEL UndocuScholars in collaboration with TheDream.US, The Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Presidential Commission on Undocumented Immigrants, and UConn’s Neag School of Education, is hosting a series of webinars and… Read More ›
By RACHEL Check out these private colleges that admit undocumented students as domestic students instead of international students! Please note that the application deadline for regular decision for most colleges on this list is January 1st, 2017. And please refer to… Read More ›