Bio:
Xiamara Martinez is a Chicana, 1st-generation, low-income transfer from Palomar College. She joined the NavCal program in Fall 2018. Xiamara is from the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, CA, and was brought up in socially-toxic environments. At Cal, she is apart of many communities such as Underground Scholars, DSP, and EOP. She is also a DSP-TRiO Peer Leader where she supports her fellow members of the disabled community. Through the Public Service Center, she previously worked as both a BUILD Literacy Director and a Public Service Internships Director where she supported several Bay Area social justice organizations that serve Latinx/Black communities. More recently, Xiamara won the Public Service Center Peter E. Haas Public Service Leaders Fellowship.
Accolades:
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Marco Antonio Firebaugh Scholars Program Recipient
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Ronald E. McNair Scholars Research Program Recipient
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Public Service Center (PSC) Peter E. Haas Leaders Fellowship Recipient
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Paid position in the Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP)
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BUILD Literacy Director
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Public Service Internship Director
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Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) SMART Scholar
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DSP-TRiO Peer Mentor
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Hispanic Fund Scholarship Recipient
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Applied to 15+ scholarships/fellowships and counting
- Received 3 Letters of Recommendation
