Donate to the SomosMAS Student Scholarship Fund

Donate to the SomosMAS Student Scholarship Fund to help send Mexican American Studies student scholars from local colleges and universities to the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) 2023 statewide and national conferences in Brownsville, Texas (March), and Denver, Colorado (April).

Dear Community:

We are SomosMAS/Mexican American Studies, Yanawana/San Antonio, Tejas, a local network of Mexican American Studies professors, educators and advocates who meet once a month to promote, grow, and sustain MAS programs at our colleges and universities; amplify collaboration across our institutions; and develop strategies for the implementation of MAS and other Ethnic Studies courses in Texas schools from Pre-K through 12th grades, and in our institutions of higher education.

Over the years, we’ve established Associate of Arts Degrees in MAS at Alamo Colleges, and articulation agreements with four-year universities. We’ve also organized statewide summits in support of MAS in K-12 schools, and have raised scholarship monies to help send undergraduate students to the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies national and statewide conferences.

This year, NACCS will be hosting their Tejas Foco statewide conference on March 23-25, 2023 at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville, Texas, followed by their national conference in Denver, Colorado the following week. We are soliciting donations for the SomosMAS Student Scholarship Fund which will help offset the costs of conference registration fees, air/ground transportation, and lodging/food for Mexican American Studies students, so that they can present their research, connect with folks in Chicanx Studies at these conferences, and build community.

For those who can, please donate. We thank you in advance for supporting MAS students and Mexican American and other Ethnic Studies programs and courses in Texas and across the nation.

As an added incentive, the top 5 contributors to this SomosMAS Student Scholarship GoFundMe Campaign will receive a special SomosMAS gift package that will include SomosMAS t-shirts, stickers, books and other goodies.

Gracias, again, for your contribution, and blessings to you and your familias.

To all our relations/Tewahayo nah’o k’tu,

SomosMAS/Mexican American Studies, Yanawana/San Antonio, Tejas

For more info:

Somos MAS Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SomosMASSATX/

About NACCS: https://www.naccs.org/naccs/General_Info.asp

Learn more about Mexican American Studies in Texas by Dr. Lilliana Patricia Saldaña, 2021