Help DACA Recipient Ana Continue her Education
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My name is Ana Ramirez, I am 21 years old and I am a senior at Western Washington University. I came to the U.S. when I was six months old and I am a DACA recipient. I also serve as a board member for the Blue Group. I study archaeology and repatriations through my concentration at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies.
If you're familiar with me or my story, you know that my last two years at WWU haven't been easy. My sophomore year I was elected to student government, and because I didn't have DACA at the time, I worked without pay for three quarters. My junior year (last year) I tried to find justice by filing a wage claim with the state department of Labor & Industries. These two things impacted me deeply and didn't allow me to properly focus on academics, and therefore my financial aid was cut off (multiple times) and only reinstated if I followed a certain credit and pace plan. Part of that plan from the last time I was allowed to appeal for my financial aid winter 2019 was to take two classes summer quarter 2019.
Although I am lucky to live in a state where undocumented students can get in-state financial aid (and are allowed to go to college at all!) undocumented students can't get financial aid for summer quarter. At the time I was working a good and stable job that would have allowed me to work my way through summer quarter. But in the end my boss left our department to fill in for someone in a different department until that department permanently filled that position. Because a lot of other factors, I ended up dropping one of my classes during summer quarter. This meant I wasn't able to access my financial aid anymore.
I can't take out loans because of my parent's and I's undocumented status. My parent's can't help me with this situation because they are both farmworkers, and apart from the little money they make in the fields, my parent's help support my brother to attend Washington State University.
Thank you for your support!!! If you prefer to donate via venmo, my venmo is venmo.com/AnaRamirez35
If you're familiar with me or my story, you know that my last two years at WWU haven't been easy. My sophomore year I was elected to student government, and because I didn't have DACA at the time, I worked without pay for three quarters. My junior year (last year) I tried to find justice by filing a wage claim with the state department of Labor & Industries. These two things impacted me deeply and didn't allow me to properly focus on academics, and therefore my financial aid was cut off (multiple times) and only reinstated if I followed a certain credit and pace plan. Part of that plan from the last time I was allowed to appeal for my financial aid winter 2019 was to take two classes summer quarter 2019.
Although I am lucky to live in a state where undocumented students can get in-state financial aid (and are allowed to go to college at all!) undocumented students can't get financial aid for summer quarter. At the time I was working a good and stable job that would have allowed me to work my way through summer quarter. But in the end my boss left our department to fill in for someone in a different department until that department permanently filled that position. Because a lot of other factors, I ended up dropping one of my classes during summer quarter. This meant I wasn't able to access my financial aid anymore.
I can't take out loans because of my parent's and I's undocumented status. My parent's can't help me with this situation because they are both farmworkers, and apart from the little money they make in the fields, my parent's help support my brother to attend Washington State University.
Thank you for your support!!! If you prefer to donate via venmo, my venmo is venmo.com/AnaRamirez35
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Ana Ramirez
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Bellingham, WA
