Kimberly Barrueta (She/Her/Ella) is a first-generation Latina college transfer student at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is in her senior year majoring in Labor Studies with a minor in Community Engagement and Social Change. She involved with extracurricular focused on the outreach and retention of Transfer Students such as CCCP, Latinx Transfer Day and being a volunteer and mentor with the student transfer center. She was born and raised in a mixed-status household in San Diego County. She hopes to pursue a career in higher education to work in the community college setting to continue advocating for future generations of Latinx Transfer Students in higher education.
Email: kbarrueta@conet.ucla.edu