My name is Jessica Rebolledo. I am a high school student and took advantage of my first two years to study the basics at YVC. After graduating from college, I am interested in studying social work because I want to help immigrants.
I would like to be a lawyer. I feel proud to study at a community college because I think where we come from is not important but where we want to go.
I have economic barriers because I am the first generation in my family to study. This is a big barrier also because I don’t know how to navigate the system, and I don’t have support from my family because they don’t know either. I also see that many people don’t do what they want to do or do not study what they want due to a lack of money.
If college were free, it would help many people and be a great opportunity for everyone, in my family, I am the youngest, I have siblings, and the oldest is studying at YVC, and although she has aid and scholarships, it is not enough, I have knowledge of what work is. Study and I have already been talking to the person at the bookstore and the financial area, and they told me that I could do it because I have social security, and this is good because it would help me financially.
I would ask the person who reads my testimony that if, as a human being, they have the opportunity to help, they do so because they do not know how difficult it is to go through so many procedures to obtain aid, and if college were free, it would help us take away so much. Stress because this affects mental health.
Jessica Rebolledo, Grandview