{"id":6589,"date":"2021-06-02T17:29:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T21:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/?page_id=6589"},"modified":"2021-06-02T17:29:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T21:29:49","slug":"newman-civic-fellow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2021\/along-the-walk\/newman-civic-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Newman Civic Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trinity College student Karolina Barrientos \u201922 recently was named a 2021\u201322 Newman Civic Fellow, an honor awarded this year to only 212 students from 39 states, Washington, D.C., and Mexico. The Newman Civic Fellowship is a one-year fellowship experience for community-committed students from Campus Compact<\/a> member institutions that support students\u2019 personal, professional, and civic development. The fellows are leaders on their campuses who demonstrate a commitment to finding solutions for challenges facing communities locally, nationally, and internationally.<\/p>\n

\"KarolinaBarrientos, a sociology and educational studies major, said she has a passion for researching and studying educational injustices. The Houston native attended the Houston Independent School District and had attended only public institutions until she began studying at Trinity.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy schools were mostly composed of marginalized students and lacked the resources many of my current peers had in their [pre-Trinity] experience,\u201d said Barrientos. \u201cWhen I enrolled in education and sociology courses, I learned the systemic causes of those injustices. Fortunately, I was lucky to have mentors in my schooling experience that led me to opportunities like attending Trinity College.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barrientos said it is important to pay her experience forward and help other students who are from backgrounds similar to hers. She has mentored elementary students in ConnectiKids, a nonprofit youth development organization that focuses on educating, enriching, and empowering Hartford\u2019s youth; participated in Trinity\u2019s Community Action Gateway program to develop and implement a social change project in Hartford; and served as an EMERGE fellow in the program designed to empower and prepare high-performing students from underserved communities to attend and graduate from selective colleges and universities.<\/p>\n

Barrientos is the fifth Trinity student to receive this honor. Those who preceded her are Tiana Starks \u201921, Matthew Rivera \u201920, Marl\u00e9n Miranda \u201920, and Rachael DiPietro \u201915.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trinity College student Karolina Barrientos \u201922 recently was named a 2021\u201322 Newman Civic Fellow, an honor awarded this year to only 212 students from 39 states, Washington, D.C., and Mexico. The Newman Civic Fellowship is a one-year fellowship experience for community-committed students from Campus Compact member institutions that support students\u2019 personal, professional, and civic development. The fellows are leaders … <\/p>\n

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