Graduation of the first official cohort of our PUENTE program!

We are still processing one of the most transformative days we have experienced in our lab journey ✨ Last week, we celebrated our first official cohort of our PUENTE program graduating. We spent all year with these amazing Desert View High School students and their incredible teacher, Ms. Skeggs. 🥲 It was a learning journey and truly reminds us of the power of education, knowledge, and how we can work together to make dreams a reality. PUENTE has been nothing short of that and more for us and we thank @uazresearch for funding this life-changing research. ✨

We now know that this isn’t just a graduation—it’s a crossing. Our PUENTE grads walk with purpose, carrying culture, language, and community on their backs. From the borderlands and beyond, they are the bridge and the future. ¡Felicidades, generación de cambio! We are so grateful that @dvhs_edpro took a chance on a new idea and working with us to make this all happen. It wouldn’t have been possible without an amazing educator like Ms. Skeggs who recognizes the importance of creating these opportunities for our students. And last, to our amazing BABEL Lab members and their PUENTE team @quienesmelii and @melanie.ramirezzz that helped year round as PUENTE leads, and @ava.haga who helped us make sure graduation day took off beautifully 🫶🏽

¡Para arriba y para adelante! ¡Todo se puede!❤️‍🔥 - de parte de BABEL Lab

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