Siqueiros, Michele2019-01-252019-01-252017-03-09http://hdl.handle.net/10919/86941In this report, the author -whose mother migrated from Mexico with a sixth-grade education, grew up in Los Angeles and was the first in her family to graduate from college-, underscored the strength of the Hispanic community and encouraged to fight harder than ever for educational, economic and political opportunity and social justice.application/pdfen-USCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalaccess to higher educationsocial justiceeducational equalizationHispanic American community college studentsReport33rdhttps://www.aahhe.org/_resources/pdf/2017-TomasRiveraLecture.pdf