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Ruzielle Ganuelas

Ruzielle Ganuelas

About Ruzielle Ganuelas

Student Leaders Lobby for Affordable Education

February 18, 2013 by Ruzielle Ganuelas Leave a Comment

Emily Dickinson once wrote, “why not have a big life?” These are the words I kept close to heart when I joined the Seattle Education Access (SEA) staff and my fellow members of the SEA Student Advisory Board Council for the SEA Lobby Day. I had never been to the State Capitol, and the closest […]

Filed Under: Class in Higher Education, Classism, First Generation College Students, Politics and Class Tagged With: activism, education, financial aid, first generation college students, immigrants, speaking up

The Anthropologist in the Organic Store

November 8, 2012 by Ruzielle Ganuelas 2 Comments

The drive on I-90 on the way to the Organic Store is picturesque. That’s the only word that can quantify the margarine yellow and red zebra stripes of the majestic trees and leaves painted across the landscape. You’re an anthropologist, you see. It’s a fancy term you’ve started calling yourself because the word “immigrant” is […]

Filed Under: Class cultures, Classism in Everyday Life, Classism in the Economy, Race and Class, Workplace classism Tagged With: classism, immigrants, low-wage jobs, organic food, racism, working class

Class Divide in Internships

November 3, 2012 by Ruzielle Ganuelas 2 Comments

Last summer I was hired as an intern for an education advocacy group in Seattle. It was my first time working as an intern and it took me several months to secure one for the summer. I have a year left before graduating from college. Facing a competitive job market after graduation, I decided to […]

Filed Under: Class in Higher Education, First Generation College Students, Workplace classism Tagged With: academia, debt, first generation college students, internships, low-wage jobs, money

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